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Liberty Quotation of the Day: Theodore D. Weld on Self-Ownership

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Theodore Weld“A man’s right to himself is his only absolute right—his right to anything else is relative to this, is derived from it, and held only by virtue of it.”

Theodore D. Weld, The Bible Against Slavery [1837]

 

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