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Henry Highland Garnet: In every man's...

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In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man.

Source: An Address to the Slaves of the U.S. of America, speech given at the National Negro Convention, Buffalo, NY, Aug 1843.
-- Henry Highland Garnet, (Dec 23 1815-1882), US clergyman, abolitionist; He was an early proponent of armed revolt against slaveholders; first Black clergyman to deliver a sermon in Congress; ambassador to Liberia, 1881.


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