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John Sergeant Wise

"The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky."

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Donna Grant

"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

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Donna Grant

"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

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Donna Grant

"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

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Donna Grant

"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

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Donna Grant

"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."

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Donna Grant

"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

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Donna Grant

"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

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Donna Grant

"Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts."

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Donna Grant

"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

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Donna Grant

"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

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John Sergeant Wise
"In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now."

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John Sergeant Wise
"THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died."

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John Sergeant Wise
"I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years."

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John Sergeant Wise
"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."

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John Sergeant Wise
"This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better."

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John Sergeant Wise
"And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood."

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John Sergeant Wise
"Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service."

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John Sergeant Wise
"When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person."

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John Sergeant Wise
"Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none."

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John Sergeant Wise
"The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky."

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