The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
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This is emphatically an age of discoveries but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.William Wells Brown
I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.
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Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
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People don't follow titles, they follow courage.
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When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.
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