"There is room in our ranks for the……" — Gerrit Smith
"There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous."
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32 Quotes by Gerrit Smith
Gerrit Smith has 32 quotes on this site.
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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
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But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
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But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your…
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It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political…
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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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Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and…
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There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I…
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We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will,…
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True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
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When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself…
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I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.
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Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
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More Decrepit Quotes
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The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky -…
— David Byrne
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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else…
— Richard Baxter
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As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by…
— William Shakespeare
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An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful…
— Jim Rohn
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When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That…
— Milton Friedman
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or…
— John Milton
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What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to…
— William Butler Yeats
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I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling…
— W G Sebald
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Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from…
— Michelle Alexander
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The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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