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The most tragic legacy that slavery bequeathed to America is one the country has yet to overcome The two races are fastened to each other without intermingling; and they are also unable to separate entirely or combine.

— Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809

The most tragic legacy that slavery bequeathed to America is one the country has yet to overcome: The two races are fastened to each other without intermingling; and they are also unable to separate entirely or combine.

— Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

— Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865

The master is as tied to the slave as the slave is tied to the master.

— Unknown source

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

— Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician who served as the 16th U.S. President, 1809-1865

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882

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