31 Quotes by David W. Blight

Slavery does away with fathers as it does away with families,” he wrote. “The order of civilization is reversed here.

When the Baptist meetinghouse in Ithaca threw the band of lecturers out of its evening session, they “adjourned into God’s house – the open air” – and held their impromptu meeting in the courthouse square. Some in the mob eventually climbed to the tower and rang the courthouse bell to break up the meeting. Sometimes, when they.

As he told of it over and over in public forums later, he portrayed his victory over Covey as the demonstration of the physical force necessary for male dignity and power.

Remember that oppression hath the power to make even a wise man mad.