I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother - what is he? The man who keeps back the hire of his laborers by fraud - what is he?
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Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free.
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Prayer is omnipotent: its breath can melt adamantine rocks - its touch can break the stoutest chains.
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Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.
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I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!
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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.
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