Compassion Quote by Gerrit Smith

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“Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.”

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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…

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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…

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

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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…

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To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

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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…

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

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

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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…

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

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