I will not be a liar, a poltroon, or a hypocrite, to accommodate any party, to gratify any sect, to escape any odium or peril, to save any interest, to preserve any institution, or to promote any object.
He refuses to compromise his values or integrity for any group or interest.
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Every slave is a stolen man; every slaveholder is a man-stealer.
A million of slaves were ready to rise and strike for freedom at the first tap of the drum.
By the Declaration of Independence, he is pronounced a man-stealer.
Whether it be personal or political, mental or corporeal, intellectual or spiritual, I am for its instant, its total Abolition.