Henry Highland Garnet Quotes

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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.

Henry Highland Garnet
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.

Henry Highland Garnet
Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

Henry Highland Garnet
We ask no special favors, but we plead for justice. While we scorn unmanly dependence; in the name of God, the universal Father, we demand the right to live and labor and enjoy the fruits of our toil.

Henry Highland Garnet
The caged lion may cease to roar, and try no longer the strength of the bars of his prison, and lie with his head between his mighty paws.... But is he contented? Does he not instinctively long for the freedom of the forest and the plain? Yes, he is still a lion.

Henry Highland Garnet
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.

Henry Highland Garnet
Is it right to lay heavy burdens on other men's shoulders which you would not remove with one of your fingers?

Henry Highland Garnet
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.

Henry Highland Garnet
You cannot be more oppressed than you have been—you cannot suffer greater cruelties than you have already. RATHER DIE FREEMEN, THAN LIVE TO BE SLAVES.

Henry Highland Garnet
It is impossible, like the children of Israel to make a grand Exodus from the land of bondage. THE PHARAOHS ARE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BLOOD-RED WATERS!

Henry Highland Garnet
But slavery attempts to make a man a brute. It treats him as a beast. Its terrible work is not finished until the ruined victim of its lusts and pride and avarice and hatred is reduced so low that with tearful eyes and feeble voice he faintly cries, "I am happy and contented. I love this condition."

Henry Highland Garnet
Let your motto be RESISTANCE! RESISTANCE! RESISTANCE! No oppressed people have ever secured their Liberty without resistance. What kind of resistance you had better make, you must decide by the circumstances that surround you, and according to the suggestion of expediency.

Henry Highland Garnet