Quote of the day
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
James W.C. Pennington
Born: 1809
Died: 1870 (aged 61)
Bio: James William Charles Pennington was an African-American orator, minister, writer, and abolitionist active in Brooklyn, New York. He escaped at the age of 19 from slavery in western Maryland and reached New York.
Known for:
- The Fugitive Blacksmith (1849)