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The grievances of which we complain, be assured, sir, are not imaginary, but real - not local, but universal - not occasional, but continual, everyday matter-of-fact things and have become, to the disgrace of our common country, matters of history.
Source: Address to the Massachusetts Legislature protesting segregated traveling arrangement, Feb 1842.
-- Charles Lenox Remond, (Feb 1 1810-1873), US abolitionist; He was a leading abolitionist and a prominent member of the Anti-Slavery Society.