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Robert Purvis: We love our...

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We love our native country, much as it has wronged us; and in the peaceable exercise of our inalienable rights, we will cling to it . . . Will you starve our patriotism?

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.


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