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> [True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/true-liberty-acknowledges-and-defends-the-equal-rights-of-all-men-and/)

[Gerrit Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerrit-smith/)

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## More by Gerrit Smith

> [The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/the-only-ground-on-which-a-neutral-state-can-claim-respect-at-the/)

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> [God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/god-cannot-approve-of-a-system-of-servitude-in-which-the-master-is/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/it-is-manifestly-vital-to-the-success-of-the-anti-slavery-cause-that/)

[Gerrit Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerrit-smith/)

> [True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/true-liberty-acknowledges-and-defends-the-equal-rights-of-all-men-and/)

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> [It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/it-sometimes-suits-the-slaveholders-to-claim-that-their-slavery-is-an/)

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> [To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/to-no-human-charter-am-i-indebted-for-my-rights/)

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> [I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/i-welcomed-the-organization-of-the-anti-slavery-society/)

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> [When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/when-a-good-man-lends-himself-to-the-advocacy-of-slavery-he-must-at/)

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> [My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/my-rights-all-spring-front-an-infinitely-nobler-source-from-favor-and/)

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> [I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/i-need-say-no-more-to-prove-that-slavery-is-entirely-unlike-the/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/i-trust-that-your-readers-will-not-construe-my-words-to-mean-that-i/)

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> [I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/i-prefer-in-a-word-the-republican-system-because-it-comes-up-more/)

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> [Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/our-concern-however-is-with-slavery-as-it-is-and-not-with-any-theory/)

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> [We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/we-must-continue-to-judge-of-slavery-by-what-it-is-and-not-by-what/)

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> [But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/but-although-america-cannot-be-justly-charged-with-violating-the/)

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