God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned,… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
