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The race is a brotherhood; God is the Father, Love is the law of this great human commonwealth, and Love knows no servitude.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Editor's note · Context
Beecher articulates a vision of humanity as a unified brotherhood under God, governed by love rather than oppression.
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I am quite aware that the subject of Slavery has been regarded, by many, as sectional; and the agitation of it in the North needless, and injurious to our peace and the country's welfare.
If he must stand by what he is, how surely must he be given over to weakness, to abuse, to oppressions.
But the North will be an utterly dead force in the American nation.
The whole North will become provincial; it will be but a fringe to a nation whose heart will beat in the South.