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If you are not ready to be the Moses of an oppressed people, do not become their Pharaoh.
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Blaine challenges those who are unwilling to lead the fight for the oppressed, urging them not to become oppressors themselves.
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That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
I am in no boastful mood: I shall not do more than I can, but I shall do all I can to save the Government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination.
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