Nations which are pleased to term themselves civilized, have one sort of faith which they hold to one another, and another sort which they entertain towards people less advanced in refinement. The faith which they entertain towards the latter, is very often treachery, in the vocabulary of the civilized.


A Lecture on the Haytien Revolutions (1841)

James McCune Smith Quotes

Nations which are pleased to term themselves civilized, have one sort of faith which they hold to one another, and another sort which they entertain...

Nations which are pleased to term themselves civilized, have one sort of faith which they hold to one another, and another sort which they entertain...

Nations which are pleased to term themselves civilized, have one sort of faith which they hold to one another, and another sort which they entertain...

Nations which are pleased to term themselves civilized, have one sort of faith which they hold to one another, and another sort which they entertain...