I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must underst...and what we are praying for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent... that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of... despotism, and ought to have no place 'mong Republicans and Christians.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... no one who has not been an integral part of a slaveholding community, can have any idea of its abominations.... even were slav...ery no curse to its victims, the exercise of arbitrary power works such fearful ruin upon the hearts of slaveholders, that I should feel impelled to labor and pray for its overthrow with my last energies and latest breath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You start back with horror and indignation at s...uch a questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and... denied the privileges of a liberal education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My country is bleeding, my people are perishing around me. But I feel as a South Carolinian, I am bound to tell the North, go on! ...go on! Never falter, never abandon the principles which you have adopted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be te...rmed "the white slaves of the North," for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »