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It is only by labor, incessant labor, in season and out of season, that we can create such a public sentiment as we need

— Abby Kelley Foster The Overthrow of Slavery (1863)

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There is less need of discussion than we sometimes imagine, and more of action.

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is there one in this Hall who sees nothing for himself to do?

speaking at Pennsylvania Hall (1838)

Our own moral destruction is consequent upon our leaving slavery to go on.

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