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REFORMERS > activist, Underground Railroad organizer > Robert Purvis
It is the...
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It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
Source: Appeal of Forty Thousan Citizens, Threatened with Disfranchissement, to the People of Pennsylvania, 1837.
-- 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.