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There is a sound of music echoing
Through the open door
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To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable clas ...
They dragged you from homeland,
They chained you in coffles,
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Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe ...
Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, or ...
I think those Southern writers [William Faulkner, Carson McCullers] have analyzed very carefully the buildup in the South of a spe ...
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing ...
To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom and ...
The cherry orchard is now mine!... I bought the estate on which my grandfather and father were slaves, where they were not even pe ...
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