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Our Country Is The World, Our Countrymen Are All Mankind. We Love The Land Of Our Nativity, Only As We Love All Other Lands. The Interests, Rights, And Liberties Of American Citizens Are No More Dear To Us Than Are Those Of The Whole Human Race. Hence We Can Allow No Appeal To Patriotism, To Revenge Any National Insult Or Injury.

Has Not The Experience Of Two Centuries Shown That Gradualism In Theory Is Perpetuity In Practice? Is There An Instance, In The History Of The World, Where Slaves Have Been Educated For Freedom By Their Task-masters?

I Am Aware That Many Object To The Severity Of My Language; But Is There Not Cause For Severity?

With Reasonable Men, I Will Reason; With Humane Men I Will Plead; But To Tyrants I Will Give No Quarter, Nor Waste Arguments Where They Will Certainly Be Lost.

The Apathy Of The People Is Enough To Make Every Statue Leap From Its Pedestal And Hasten The Resurrection Of The Dead.