There is no room in our ranks for the politician, who, to secure the votes of the youth, would consent that American slavery be perpetual.
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Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.Gerrit Smith
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
Gerrit Smith
I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
Gerrit Smith
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.
Gerrit Smith
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.
Gerrit Smith
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
Gerrit Smith
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