Quote by Edmund Burke
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. - Edmund Burke

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. – Edmund Burke

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Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – Edmund Burke

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Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. – Maria Weston Chapman

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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. – Anwar El-Sadat

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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds. – Pearl Buck

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Thy treasures of gold
Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold;
Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear
The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear. – Lydia Maria Child

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