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Bury the Chains
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"Bury the Chains" Quotes

"Bury the Chains" by Adam Hochschild is the story of the abolitionist movement in Britain to end the transatlantic slave trade.

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The human mind always tries to create order out of chaos, to find patterns in the universe.

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The will to change things often starts out as the mere wish to be able to change them.

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Freedom is always worth fighting for, and worth dying for.

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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Perhaps the greatest power of a revolution is that it allows even the most ordinary people to participate in the most extraordinary events.

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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

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