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Abolitionist Inspirational Quotes (2146)

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All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Henry David Thoreau
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To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.
Henry David Thoreau
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I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
Henry David Thoreau
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We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.
Hannah More
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The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.
John Newton
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it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world and by their noise to multiply their numbers.
Hannah More
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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau
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I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
Henry David Thoreau
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I suppose that the great questions of Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute, which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled.
Henry David Thoreau
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All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.
Henry David Thoreau
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When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.
Hannah More
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The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
Henry David Thoreau
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A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.
Susan B. Anthony
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau
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Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength.
John Newton
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The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banksmany a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.
Henry David Thoreau
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The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint
William Wilberforce
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If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
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If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.
John Newton
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The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
Henry David Thoreau
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Music is the crystallization of sound.
Henry David Thoreau
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Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.
John Newton
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You never gain something but that you lose something.
Henry David Thoreau
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