"If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?"

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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

— Henry Ward Beecher