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I do not feel as many may feel today, to make an appeal over the prostrate form of some slave mother; nor do I care to repeat the sayings of some noble slave father.... I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself, and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation.

Charles Lenox Remond

Complexion can in no sense be construed into crime, much less be rightfully made the criterion of rights.

Charles Lenox Remond

Charles Lenox Remond

Charles Lenox Remond

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Born: February 1, 1810

Died: December 22, 1873 (aged 63)

Bio: Charles Lenox Remond was an American orator, activist and abolitionist based in Massachusetts. He lectured against slavery across the Northeast, and in the British Isles on an 1840 tour with William Lloyd Garrison.

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