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I deny that villany is ever necessary. It is impossible that it should ever be necessary for any reasonable creature to violate all the laws of justice, mercy, and truth. No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.

— John Wesley Thoughts Upon Slavery (1774)

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Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

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But when the Son of Man shall come in his glory, the brightest crown will be given to the sufferers.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

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