Charles Lavigere Quotes
It was while you were sleeping that the enemy came. Barbarism, the foe of all that is good, did its work and the tares which it sowed and the evil which threatens to invade everything, is slavery.
Charles Lavigere, *, French Catholic Cardinal, Sermon against the African Slave Trade and European toleration of it, Church of Saint Sulpice, Paris, July 1888
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What was particularly interesting about this quotation is that Pinkney was a political leader of Maryland, a slave state. See {632258} and {632257} for more on this point.
The Greeks committed many atrocities in their war with Turkey. See {584483}
Tension was high between England and America and war was rumored. The question of whether Blacks would fight for America as they had in the Revolution and the War of 1812 arose.
This was written from Washington DC where slavery was legal at the time.
This is only one of many anti-American and anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic passages in the text. It is typical of much of the Wahhabi literature which also supports jihad and violence. Much of the funding for the Wahabbi comes from the Saudi Arabian Government and members of the Saudi Royal Family. There is total censorship in Saudi Arabia and nothing gets preached or printed if the Saudi government wishes otherwise. However, most of the imams in Saudi Arabia are Wahhabi and are paid by the government. The Royal Family’s only fear of losing power is if the Islamic clerics claim that the government is not supportive of Islam. They spend much money to buy their lack of opposition to the monarchy. The government position however is contrary to these hate-filled textbooks.
He was making a generalization based on his historical study of nations and societies.
