Robert Purvis Quotes

• . . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!

  Robert Purvis

  Book, School, Sight

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• I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

  Robert Purvis

  Insult To Injury, Judging, Soil

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• I am proud to be an American Citizen.

  Robert Purvis

  Citizens, Proud, Proud To Be An American

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• It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

  Robert Purvis

  Respect, Voice, Government

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