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William Herring III
“My master! and who made him my master? That’s what I think of — what right has he to me? I’m a man as much as he is. I’m a better man than he is.
“slavery always ends in misery.”
― Uncle Tom's Cabin
― Uncle Tom's Cabin
“Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be,’ the scripture says.”
― Uncle Tom's Cabin
― Uncle Tom's Cabin
“O, but nobody thinks anything of these traders! They are universally despised, — never received into any decent society.” But who, sir, makes the trader? Who is most to blame? The enlightened, cultivated, intelligent man, who supports the system of which the trader is the inevitable result, or the poor trader himself? You make the public statement that calls for his trade, that debauches and depraves him, till he feels no shame in it; and in what are you better than he? Are you educated and he ignorant, you high and he low, you refined and he coarse, you talented and he simple? In the day of a future judgment, these very considerations may make it more tolerable for him than for you.”
― Uncle Tom's Cabin
― Uncle Tom's Cabin
“Of course, in a community so organized, what can a man of honorable and humane feelings do, but shut his eyes all he can, and harden his heart? I”
― Uncle Tom's Cabin
― Uncle Tom's Cabin
“Mr. Wilson, you have a country; but what country have I, or any one like me, born of slave mothers? What laws are there for us? We don’t make them, — we don’t consent to them, — we have nothing to do with them; all they do for us is to crush us, and keep us down.”
― Uncle Tom's Cabin
― Uncle Tom's Cabin
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