“The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.” WorldShouldLongUseLastsAmericaFallDutyDemandSlaveTongueChainsPensLimbs Author:William Wells Brown
“The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages; and it is doubtless our paramount duty, in every state of society, to alleviate the pressure of the purely evil part of this distribution, as much as possible, and, by all the means we can devise, secure the lower links in the chain of society from dragging in dishonor and wretchedness.” MeanHas BeensStatesAgeEvilIndividualEnjoyCommunityDifferencesDutyDegreesPressureGood ThingsSecureChainsThemeLinksDeclarationDistributionDiscontentBenevolenceParamountDishonorAlleviateWretchedness Author:William Herschel
“The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.” PersonsLongArtMatterDealsDutyArgumentComplicatedHearingGuidesChainsReasoningRhetoricGlancesDeliberate Book:Rhetoric Source: Rhetoric