Concern Quote by Gerrit Smith Download Open image “Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.” — Gerrit Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Concern Slavery Theory
It is troubling that modern slavery is a crime that can be hidden in the supply chains of the goods and services we use… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
Modern day slavery is the great tragedy of our time and the U.S. cannot turn a blind eye to it on our soil or… — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful… — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. — 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
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became… — Bob Barker Copy Share Image
What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
