Men Quotes by Gerrit Smith

Gerrit Smith

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

Hills

May

Men

Gerrit Smith

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power – of assuming God’s place and relation towards his fellow-men.

Assuming

Fellow Man

Men

Gerrit Smith

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

Care

Littles

Men

Gerrit Smith

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. – Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

Men

Peace

War

Gerrit Smith

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

Men

Political

Rights

Gerrit Smith

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Class

Mean

Men

Gerrit Smith

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

Liberty

Men

Rights

Gerrit Smith

Truth and mercy require the exertion – never the suppression, of man’s noble rights and powers.

Men

Noble

Rights

Gerrit Smith

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

Good Man

Home

Men

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Anti Slavery

Assuming

Believe

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Care

Causes

Charter

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Come Up

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Construction

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Gone

Good Man

Government

Grace

Hands

Hills

Home

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Honesty Love

Humans

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May

Mean

Men

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Needs

New Roads

Noble

Nonsense

Organization

Peace

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Prove

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Respect

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Sometimes

Southern

Spring

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Theory

Turkeys

War

Young

Men Quotes by Gerrit Smith

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power – of assuming God’s place and relation towards his fellow-men.

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. – Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

Truth and mercy require the exertion – never the suppression, of man’s noble rights and powers.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

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