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. You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe!

Charles Poliquin

#4. Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.

Isaac Newton

#5. 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

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

Henry Highland Garnet

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

Henry Highland Garnet

#8. The water stretched out into the distance until it held hands with the sky.

Katie Kacvinsky

#9. If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

George Lois

#10. 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

#11. Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

Errol Morris