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Slavery cannot bear one ray of light, or the slightest criticism.

What you demand for yourselves, in virtue of your manhood, I demand for the enslaved at the South, on the same ground.

Every slave is a stolen man; every slaveholder is a man-stealer.

What right have I to be free, that another man cannot prove himself to possess by nature?

Hence, I cannot but regard oppression in every form--and most of all, that which turns a man into a thing--with indignation and abhorrence.

While a slave remains in his fetters, the land must have no rest.

Show me the government which can be maintained only by destroying the rights of a portion of the people; and you will indicate the duty of openly revolting against it.

Convince me that liberty is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming fire.

Convince me that one man may rightfully make another man his slave, and I will no longer subscribe to the Declaration of Independence.