#avery

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. ↗

— James A. Garfield

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But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present. ↗

— Nick Lampson

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado. ↗

— Menander

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Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. ↗

— Huey Newton

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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. ↗

— Anais Nin

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Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. ↗

— George S. Patton

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