It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
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Talk about slavery It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone... I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave.
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In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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