Caught Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The greatest abuse of all-the slave trade-was ended as a direct result of the political influence of evangelical Christians in Britain, who were connected…

— Thomas Sowell

“He had grown up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger faith than his faith in God. This was the…

— Michael Shaara

“For the African race, such as Providence has made it, and where He has placed it in America, slavery was the righteous, the best,…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

“The opposition which had driven him from Northampton followed him to Stockbridge. For several years a persistent effort was made to obstruct his work,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“The former slave told his audience that “there is little necessity on this occasion to speak at length and critically of this great and…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.

— William Cowper

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we…

— Gerrit Smith

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

— Anonymous

“Let the Christian remain in the world, not because of the good gifts of creation, nor because of his responsibility for the course of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“and about the same time an invitation from the Commissioners in Boston of the “Society in London for Propagating the Gospel in New England…

— Jonathan Edwards

A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found…

— George Washington Carver

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

— Stephen Vizinczey