James Forten famous quotes

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Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.
-- James Forten

#Tyrants #America #Long
It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.
-- James Forten

#Ideas #Liberty #Slavery
Has the God who made the white man and the black left any record declaring us a different species? Are we not sustained by the same power, supported by the same food. . . . And should we not then enjoy the same liberty. . .?
-- James Forten

#Men #White #Black
Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still dimmed its lustre. Domestic slavery existed among a people who had themselves disdained to submit to a master.
-- James Forten

#Country #Dark #People

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.
When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

James Forten famous quotes

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