It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
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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