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THE GREAT BLACK WAY
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are as dear to them as yours are to you. Do not, therefore, take the life of any one, if you can possibly avoid it; but if it is necessary to take life in order to save your own, then make sure work of it."[1]

  1. Anderson, A Voice from Harper's Ferry, p. 29.