Hinton Rowan Helper quotes
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“California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.”
-- Hinton Rowan HelperSource : Hinton Rowan Helper (1855). “The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction”, p.68
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“I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited.”
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“Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.”
-- Hinton Rowan HelperSource : George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”
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“Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.”
-- Hinton Rowan HelperSource : Hinton Rowan Helper (1857). “The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it”, p.406
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“Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.”
-- Hinton Rowan HelperSource : Hinton Rowan Helper (1860). “The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it”, p.436
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“There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.”
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“When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.”
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“What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?”
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“Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.”
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