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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."— Abraham Lincoln
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Meaning of this quote
The speaker exposes the hypocrisy of defending slavery while refusing to experience it personally.
Key takeaway:
Test moral arguments by considering their effects on those subjected to them.
Origin of the quote
Speech to the 140th Indiana Regiment, March 17, 1865.
Who actually said this?
VerifiedExact sentence appears in a Smithsonian transcript citing the Collected Works of Lincoln.
