In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
A man's country is the world.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.
Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.
It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.