More From Gerrit Smith
- "It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed."
- "The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected."
- "The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him."
More In Society
- "How many of you have broken no laws this month? That’s the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee – with physics and mathematics, not with laws – that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications."― John Gilmore
- "Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society."― Gary Locke
- "Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today."― Jinato Hu