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  • Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success.

    Single Mom   Mean   Angel  
    Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.47, Gale Cengage Learning
  • The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.

    Sight   Liberty   Spirit  
    Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.48, Gale Cengage Learning
  • Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

    Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.51, Gale Cengage Learning
  • In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man. Brethren, your oppressors aim to do this. They endeavor to make you as much like brutes as possible. When they have blinded the eyes of your mind-when they have embittered the sweet waters of the light which shines from the word of God-then, and not till then has American slavery done its perfect work.

    Sweet   Eye   Men  
    Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.47, Gale Cengage Learning
  • In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man.

    Men   Justice   Diversity  
    Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.47, Gale Cengage Learning
  • You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.

  • Think of the undying glory that hangs around the ancient name of Africa and forget not that you are native-born American citizens, and as such, you are justly entitled to all the rights that are granted to the freest.

    Thinking   Names   Rights  
    Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.48, Gale Cengage Learning
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