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“I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.”
Source: The Anti-Slavery Movement, lecture in Rochester, New York (1855)
Context Lecturing to the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, he explained why he had rejected the American Anti-Slavery Society's call for disunion in favour of action under the Constitution.
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