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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
"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
"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
"America is good enough for us."

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John Sergeant Wise
"Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them."

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John Sergeant Wise
"It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors."

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John Sergeant Wise
"As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school."

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John Sergeant Wise
"John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection."

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