"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."

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Source : Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.47, Gale Cengage Learning

Henry Highland Garnet

#Men Quotes #Justice Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.”
“He who prays most receives most.”
“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
“All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it's absurd. Of course it's going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we're coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we're putting more carbon dioxide into the air.”
“My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.”
“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
“Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely and amuse his contemporaries.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “Thoughts about Art”, p.1
“A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.”

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