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In the South, there are many roads leading from the top of society to the bottom, but not one, not ONE from the bottom to the top.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “In the South, there are many roads leading from the top of society to the bottom, but not one, not ONE from the bottom…”
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This quote illustrates the rigid social mobility in the South compared to the North, where opportunities are more accessible.
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Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.
Having once given forth this spirit of liberty, now fading out of our Southern States, the North should again come forth and refill the poisoned veins that have been drinking the hemlock of Despotism with the new blood of Liberty!
If the North gives to the Nation her radical principles of human rights and democratic Governments, there will be the peace of an immeasurable prosperity.
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