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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
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"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
"It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union."
"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
"If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls."
"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
"Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books."
"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
"All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent."
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