To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.
About Robert Purvis
Robert Purviswas an American abolitionist in the United States. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and was likely educated at Amherst Academy, a secondary school in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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I am proud to be an American Citizen.
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To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.
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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.
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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.
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