If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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