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1. "There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor." ~ Gerrit Smith
2. "There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous." ~ Gerrit Smith
3. "To no human charter am I indebted for my rights." ~ Gerrit Smith
4. "To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense." ~ Gerrit Smith
5. "True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased." ~ Gerrit Smith
6. "The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him." ~ Gerrit Smith
7. "As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men." ~ Gerrit Smith
8. "But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash." ~ Gerrit Smith
9. "But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America." ~ Gerrit Smith
10. "But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts." ~ Gerrit Smith
11. "Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers." ~ Gerrit Smith
12. "I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill." ~ Gerrit Smith
13. "I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric." ~ Gerrit Smith
14. "I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals." ~ Gerrit Smith
15. "I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families." ~ Gerrit Smith
16. "I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system." ~ Gerrit Smith
17. "I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society." ~ Gerrit Smith
18. "Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion." ~ Gerrit Smith
19. "My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God." ~ Gerrit Smith
20. "Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it." ~ Gerrit Smith
21. "The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash." ~ Gerrit Smith

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