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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 32 quotes by Gerrit Smith Gerrit Smith (March 6, 1797 – December 28, 1874) was a leading United States social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist. Spouse to Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, Smith was a candidate for President of the United States in 1848, 1856, and 1860, but only served 18 months in the federal government—in Congress as a Free Soil Party Representative, in 1853–4. Smith, a significant financial contributor to the Liberty Party and the Republican... Read full biography of Gerrit Smith → 1 2 3 Ctrl → Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. 0 I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. 0 Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion. 0 To no human charter am I indebted for my rights. 0 We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. 0 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... → 0 Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it. 0 True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. 0 As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my... → 0 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... → 0 It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do... → 0 I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of... → 0 But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts. 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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