You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity. Henry Highland Garnet More Quotes by Henry Highland Garnet More Quotes From Henry Highland Garnet Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance! Henry Highland Garnet resistance liberty people 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 diversity justice men 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 single-mom angel mean 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 liberty spirit sight 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. Henry Highland Garnet eye sweet men 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 rights names thinking
