Henry Highland Garnet Quotes

#1. Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success.

Henry Highland Garnet

#2. In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man.

Henry Highland Garnet

#3. Think of the undying glory that hangs around the ancient name of Africa and forget not that you are native-born American citizens, and as such, you are justly entitled to all the rights that are granted to the freest.

Henry Highland Garnet

#4. Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

Henry Highland Garnet

#5. You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.

Henry Highland Garnet

#6. The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.

Henry Highland Garnet