Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get.
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I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
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