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The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.
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Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.
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Brothers and sisters we were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers.
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Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families.
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The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.