"In those days, slavery was not looked upon,……" — John Sergeant Wise
"In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now."
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24 Quotes by John Sergeant Wise
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My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in…
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As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.
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Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.
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THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
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However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters…
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John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
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Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far…
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In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished…
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And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be…
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The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the…
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In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost…
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This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and…
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More Abhorrence Quotes
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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
— Arthur W. Pink
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The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do…
— Patrick Henry
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It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full…
— William Godwin
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You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at…
— Blaise Pascal
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Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
— Edward Heath
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
— Bergen Evans
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Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons,…
— Joseph Rotblat
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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls.
— Stuart Rose
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Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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