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“Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the shores of Egypt and Africa, or that Bethlehem would daily receive noble Romans, distinguished ladies, brought up in wealth and now reduced to beggary? I cannot help them all, but I grieve and weep with them, and am completely absorbed in the duties which charity imposes on me. I have put aside my commentary on Ezekiel and almost all study. For today we must translate the precepts of the Scriptures into deeds; instead of speaking saintly words, we must act them.”

Helping Today Wealth Cities Study Duty One Day Daughter Slave Charity Deeds Noble Scripture Wander Servant Grieving Shore Translate Egypt Distinguished Commentary Bethlehem Beggary Ezekiel

Author:St. Jerome

“We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.”

Country Mother Pay Subjects Duty Slave Submission Mother Country

Author:George Mason

“Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.”

Men Force Duty Slave

Book:Some of the

Source: Some of the

“Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.”

Reason Atheism Mines Duty Conscience Slave Positive Atheism Occasions Hunts Pretext Presbyterians All Occasions

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good purpose. The machine itself has neither mind nor soul nor moral sense. Only man has been endowed with these godlike attributes. Every age has its destined duty. Ours is to nurture an awareness of those divine attributes and a sense of responsibility in giving them expression.”

“Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but "feeding on unearned wealth." This hurts their nature and debases the social fabric. If a woman does no labor in her home which could properly make her self-supporting outside that home she is in duty bound to do something outside her home to justify her claim to support.”

Ifs Doe Self Use Home Values Social Hurt Wealth Class Support Duty Labor Claims Slave Mere Bounds Creator Servant Justify Fabric Feeding Selected

Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture

Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture

“...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... Nostation or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.”

Believe Matter Character Individual I Believe Sin Responsibility Crime Masters Duty Slavery Slave South Oppression Robbery Rebuke Individual Responsibility

Author:Angelina Grimke

“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.”

World Should Long Use Lasts America Fall Duty Demand Slave Tongue Chains Pens Limbs

Author:William Wells Brown

“Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.”

Force Duty Slave Inherent Servitude

Author:Margaret of Valois

“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.”

Ifs Men Purpose Wish Duty Unions Slave Leaving Civil War Officials If I Could American Civil War Modification

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“We will not submit to have our own money taken out of our pockets without our consent; because if any man or any set of men take from us without our consent or that of our representatives one shilling in the pound we have not security for the remaining nineteen. We owe to our mother country the duty of subjects but will not pay her the submission of slaves.”

Ifs Men Country Mother Pay Taken Subjects Security Duty Slave Pockets Pounds Submit Representatives Consent Submission Nineteen Mother Country

Author:George Mason

“Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba, or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent 'rights' of gang rulers. It is not a free nation's duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses.”

Ifs Self Matter Today Nations Interest Rights Sacrifice Duty Slave Russia Germany Pens Soviet Rulers Dictatorship Nazi Gang Self Interest Cuba Self Sacrifice Outlaw Nazi Germany Soviet Russia

Author:Ayn Rand

“Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

Life Ends Might Faith Freedom Feet Duty Slave Dare Have Faith Dungeons Might Makes Right

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.”

Ifs Persons Law Force Duty Authority Beats Slave Obligation Latter Contracts Brutes Brute Force

Book:A Defence for Fugitive Slaves

Source: A Defence for Fugitive Slaves