Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

Famous Quotes / Olive Schreiner

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Olive Schreiner: "Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death."

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Adult	Attacks	Becomes	Behind
Commonly	Compared	Complaint	Constitution
Death	Developed	Disease	Diseases
Fatal	Fully	Gone	Humanity
Infancy	Infantile	Leaves	Marks
Measles	Most	Normally	Often
Perhaps	Period	Permanently	Poisoning
Slavery	Through	Toxic	Virulent
Where	Young

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Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death. - Olive Schreiner