"This and many others only confirmed me in……" — John Sergeant Wise
"This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better."
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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 those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards…
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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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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable…
— Daniel Boone
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Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which…
— Alexander the Great
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'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns…
— George Herbert
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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for…
— Grigory Zinoviev
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Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms,…
— Antonin Artaud
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An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman…
— William Butler Yeats
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You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy…
— Erich Ludendorff
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Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance…
— Simone Weil
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The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most…
— Arthur Koestler
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As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the…
— William Wordsworth
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