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— Rebecca Latimer Felton"It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities."
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Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of income taxation and the IRS, just as genuine freedom entailed the abolition, not the reform, of slavery.
— Jacob G. Hornberger
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Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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