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It is idle to await unanimity.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Idle
Unanimity
Await
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We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Hereafter
Slavery
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Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Men
Dangerous
Unjust
Morally
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Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Leadership
Men
Daring
Emergencies
Willingly
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Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Respect
Boldness
Command
Decision
Engagement
Evil
Mankind
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It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Bondage
Men Great Always
Held
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Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Citizens
Hands
Safety
Suffered
Remain
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The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Idolatry
Worship
Worst
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Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Men
Done
Endless
Might
Objections
Thousand
Acquiesce
Advance
Boldly
Find
Proposed
Which
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Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Courage
Wisdom
Adventure
Aquariums
Forethought
Noble
Prudence
Consequences
Adventures
Essential
Leaves
Right
Second
Which
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The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Men
Bravery
Confederate
Deny
Earnest
Ethos
Idle
Reckless
Convictions
Composed
Dangers
Forces
Threaten
Twofold
Whose
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They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Assured
Emancipation
Proclamation
Time Yourself Feel
Time Yourself Will
Option
Remain
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Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Assured
Permanent
Existing
Permanent Peace
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Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Ceremony
Unjust
Virtue
Divest
Legally
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It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Men
Almighty
Enlightened
Race
Statesmanship
Freedom Men Power
Power Freedom Men
Freedom Power Men
Instrument
Restore
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The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Government
Comfort
Cutting
Exercise
Forbidden
Power Government People
Aid
Cut
Fails
Rebels
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How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Oppressed
Position
Solemn
Numerous
Perils
Responsibilities
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In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Comfort
Enemy
Exercise
Given
Law
Sea
Above
Accordance
Aid
Due
Deprive
Official
Strictest
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In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Authority
Fate
Frank
Public Safety
Safety
Speech
Threatened
Men Man May
Above
Hang
Owe
Shall
Single Act
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If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Contending
Doubted
Responsibility
Should
Wonder
Counsel
Vast
Lest
Measure
Multitude
Shrunk
Suggested
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After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Bitterness
Past
People
Roots
Bear
Borne
In The Past
Our People
Parallel
Remain
Root
Sprout
Voluntary
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Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Battle
Human Freedom
Names
Reality
Terrible
Brightest
Fought
Fulfill
Placed
Realities
Threats
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And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Desire
Feudal System
Rights
Life Myself My Life
Consider
Declare
Earnestly
Rest
Feudal
Hereby
Relic
System
Utterly
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There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
Robert Dale Owen / American Politician
Courage
Smile
Trust
Believe
May
Relief
Sufficient
Trust No One
Virtue
Within
Adopt
Nation
Dangers
Enforce
Hour
Impending
Needing
Other
Rationally
Redeem
Which
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