Forbidden Quote 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,…

— 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…

— Gerrit Smith

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

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

— Gerrit Smith

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

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

— Gerrit Smith

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

— 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…

— Gerrit Smith

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

— Gerrit Smith

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

— Gerrit Smith

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

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

— Gerrit Smith