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I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.
Source: Letter to Senator S. C. Pomroy, 1862.
-- Robert Purvis, ( 1810-1898), US activist, Underground Railroad organizer; He unsuccessfully protested the disenfranchisement of blacks in Philadelphia, 1830s; cofounded the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833.