Selections from the Writings and Speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an Appendix ...R.F. Wallcut, 1852 - 416 pages |
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... millions of people living under the full blaze of gospel light , who have every desirable facility to elevate and save it , it never can rise until it be removed at least four thousand miles from their vicinage ! —and yet it is first to ...
... millions of people living under the full blaze of gospel light , who have every desirable facility to elevate and save it , it never can rise until it be removed at least four thousand miles from their vicinage ! —and yet it is first to ...
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... millions of our colored countrymen . For , assuredly , if the Colonization Society succeed in its efforts to remove thousands of their number annually , it cannot inflict a heavier curse upon Africa , or more speedily accomplish the ...
... millions of our colored countrymen . For , assuredly , if the Colonization Society succeed in its efforts to remove thousands of their number annually , it cannot inflict a heavier curse upon Africa , or more speedily accomplish the ...
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... million of her barbarous sons ? ' So ! every ship load of ignorant and helpless emigrants is to more than compensate Africa for every million of her children who have been kidnapped , buried in the ocean and on the land , tortured with ...
... million of her barbarous sons ? ' So ! every ship load of ignorant and helpless emigrants is to more than compensate Africa for every million of her children who have been kidnapped , buried in the ocean and on the land , tortured with ...
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... millions of wretched , degraded beings , who are pining in hopeless bondage - over whose sufferings scarcely an eye weeps , or a heart melts , or a tongue pleads either to God or man . I regret that a better advocate had not been found ...
... millions of wretched , degraded beings , who are pining in hopeless bondage - over whose sufferings scarcely an eye weeps , or a heart melts , or a tongue pleads either to God or man . I regret that a better advocate had not been found ...
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... our promptitude to redress their wrongs . More than a million of native - born citizens are at this moment enduring the galling yoke of slavery . Who cries for jus- tice ? None . ' But they are blacks ! 56 SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF.
... our promptitude to redress their wrongs . More than a million of native - born citizens are at this moment enduring the galling yoke of slavery . Who cries for jus- tice ? None . ' But they are blacks ! 56 SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF.
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Page 140 - Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine ; and she shall be utterly burned with fire : for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Page 251 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 248 - Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said : nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Page 251 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see...
Page 259 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 242 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below"; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 139 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying ; Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird...
Page 200 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord...
Page 63 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation . . . urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.
Page 38 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.