43 Quotes by Gerrit Smith

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.

There is no room in our ranks for the politician, who, to secure the votes of the youth, would consent that American slavery be perpetual.

The rich and the honorable, if divested of this right, have still their wealth and their honors to repose on, and to solace them.

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.