Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power.
Abolitionist, orator
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"The Republican Party is only negatively anti-slavery. It is opposed to the political power of slavery, rather than to slavery itself."
Controversial"You are the children of Abraham Lincoln. We are at best only his stepchildren; children by adoption, children by forces of circumstances and necessity."
Controversial"Slavery is a system of fraud and blood."
Controversial"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle."
Strange & Unusual"My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behol…"
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