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There are scenes of such greatness, or of such misery, that being complete in their kind, they cannot be described; the world and the atom define themselves; thus, crime and virtue keep the same proportion; thus, the slave who kills the master, who fulfills an inevitable prescription of natural right, and the unworthy people, who murder heroes, will never be mixed.

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Slavery is a kind of social leprosy: it has often been abolished by legislators and restored by education under various aspects.

A law is a social monument, a page of history, a lesson in ethnography, a reason for state.

I am an abolitionist, without reservation; I am a citizen; I believe I have done my duty.

The slave who kills his master, in any circumstance, always does so in self-defense.

Wretched people; they ignore that it is more glorious to die free on a rope, or torn to pieces by dogs in the public square, than to feast with the Neros in slavery.

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