Colossal Quote by John Adams Download Open image “Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.” — John Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Colossal Evil Magnitude Slavery
“Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The great evil of American slavery was involuntary servitude or forced labor. I really believe that the true evil of American slavery was the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul. — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Slavery was one of the worst crimes against humanity and endured by those who built our great nation. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration. — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“African slavery lacked two elements that made American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity — John Adams Copy Share Image
We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own aprobation. But upon the stage… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. — John Adams Copy Share Image
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time.… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image