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I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau

1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

July 12th, 1817 - May 6th, 1862

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