Home / Authors / Akhil Reed Amar

Akhil Reed Amar Quotes

Author

Browse famous quotes by Akhil Reed Amar.

Famous Akhil Reed Amar Quotes

“in 1775 there arose a remarkable civic society that aimed to end slavery itself. The society was formed not by Johnson, nor in Johnson’s vaunted London, nor indeed anywhere in Britain proper, but rather in Philadelphia, the host city of the Continental Congress. Two of the society’s early leaders were Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush, who both, in the summer of 1776, added their names to the American Declaration of Independence.”

Book:The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840

Source: The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840