We’ve taken away so much dignity from countless, magnificent, beautiful beings by judging them …
Monthly Archives: July 2010
But why so vehement! so unyielding! so severe!
But why so vehement! so unyielding! so severe! Because the times and the cause demand vehemence. An immense iceberg, larger and more impenetrable …
A mark of inferiority
The Negro knows, acts and feels that God has put a mark of inferiority upon him and this of itself secures his individual satisfaction and happiness. ~ J. B. Davis (July 22, 1848)
But I am ready to resist unto death
My old friend, I love the Union. But I am ready to resist unto death, rather than to submit to the schemes, plans and policy of the Abolitionists and their friends and supporters throughout the non slaveholding States. ~ Wilson Lumpkin (January 6, 1847)
If there is no struggle there is no progress
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august …
Quotes on Slavery 