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"I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"
"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"
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"It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary."
"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor."
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"It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed."
"I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."
"But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America."
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