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Men Quotes by Gerrit Smith
- Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
- 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,…
- It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously…
- 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…
- There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
- 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…
- 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…
- I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
- As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the…
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