"Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary... The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation."

-- John Quincy Adams

#Principles Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.”
“Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important”
“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.”
“The text is your greatest enemy.”
“The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.”
“The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of women and children; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to support the holocaust of Hitler's Third Reich; to oppose medical science; to condemn inter-racial marriage; to execute women as witches; to excuse the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan; to mobilize militias, white supremacy and neo-nazi movements; and to condone intolerance and discrimination against sexual minorities.”
“There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.”
“This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study of consciousness is the science of spirituality.”

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