“The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no shade of color, no mere misfortune of circumstances, can annul that birthright charter, which God has bequeathed to every being upon whom he has stamped his own image, by making him a free moral agent, and that he who robs his fellow man of this tramples upon right, subverts justice, outrages humanity, unsettles the foundation of human safety, and sacrilegiously assumes the prerogative of God.”
Quote by Theodore Dwight Weld
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Theodore Dwight Weld
Theodore Dwight Weld was an American writer and social reformer, born on November 23, 1803, and died on February 3, 1895. He is renowned for his contributions to the abolitionist movement and his advocacy for women's rights. more
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