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Whoever else did, he would not submit to senatorial insult and bondage.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgWhoever else did, he would not submit to senatorial insult and bondage.
Grimké emphasizes the determination of individuals to resist oppression and insult, highlighting a refusal to accept subjugation.
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To such an unconquerable will, to such an invincible faith obstacles vanish; the impossible becomes the attainable.
O Freedom! how are ye still born In the rude stable, in the manger nursed; What humble hands unbar those gates of morn Through which the splendors of the New Day burst.
At any rate they should hear what was resting upon his soul with the weight of a great woe, the force of a supreme command.
Pray, sir, is it a careful desire to fulfill the Scriptures, or to make money, that induces you to hold your fellow-men in bondage?