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" I want you to understand that I respect the .rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave power, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. "
The Anti-slavery History of the John-Brown Year: Being the Twenty-seventh ... - Page 94
by American Anti-Slavery Society - 1861 - 337 pages
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The Life, Trial, and Execution of Captain John Brown: Known as "old Brown of ...

Robert M. De Witt - Abolitionists - 1859 - 146 pages
...that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and...is the idea that has moved me, and that alone. We expect no reward, except the satisfaction of endeavoring to do for those in distress and greatly oppressed,...
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The Public Life of Capt. John Brown

James Redpath - Abolitionists - 1860 - 426 pages
...respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of the colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and...satisfaction of endeavoring to do for those in distress — the greatly oppressed — as we would be done by. The cry of distress, of the oppressed, is my...
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Echoes of Harper's Ferry ...

James Redpath - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 530 pages
...that I respect the .rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave power, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful." " I wish to say, furthermore, that you had better, all you people at the South, prepare yourselves...
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The Life and Letters of Capt. John Brown: Who was Executed at Charlestown ...

Richard Davis Webb - 1861 - 480 pages
...respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of the coloured people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and...alone. We expected no reward except the satisfaction of endeavouring to do for those in distress — the greatly oppressed — as we would be done by. The...
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The Life and Letters of Captain John Brown: Who was Executed at Charlestown ...

John Brown - Abolitionists - 1861 - 486 pages
...respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of the coloured people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and...alone. We expected no reward except the satisfaction of endeavouring to do for those in distress — the greatly oppressed — as we would be done by. The...
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A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers

Henry David Thoreau - Civil disobedience - 1866 - 314 pages
...that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave power, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful." " I wish to say, furthermore, that you had better, all you people at the South, prepare yourselves...
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Characteristics: Sketches and Essays

Addison Peale Russell - English literature - 1883 - 378 pages
...respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of the colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and...satisfaction of endeavoring to do for those in distress — the greatly oppressed — as we would be done by. The cry of distress, of the oppressed, is my...
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Brave Lives and Noble

Clara L. Matéaux - Adventure and adventurers - 1883 - 344 pages
...respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of the. coloured people oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and...alone. We expected no reward except the satisfaction of endeavouring to do for those in distress— the greatly oppressed — what we would be done by. The...
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Anti-slavery and Reform Papers

Henry David Thoreau - Slavery - 1890 - 158 pages
...understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by slave power, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful." " I wish to say, furthermore, that you had better, all you people at the South, prepare yourselves...
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Essays and Other Writings of Henry Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau - Conduct of life - 1901 - 324 pages
...that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of coloured people, oppressed by slave power, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and T " powerful. . "I wish to say, furthermore, that you had better, all you . : . people at the South,...
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