George Ripley Quotes

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.

Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.

It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who profess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race, from whatever burden of oppression they may labour under.

You shall not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor.

I should have done violence to my convictions of duty, had I not made use of all the lawful means in my power to liberate those people, and assist them to become men and women, rather than leave them in the condition of chattels personal.

Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen. Women's suffrage didn't just happen - people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation didn't just happen - people made it happen. And marriage equality didn't just happen, either - people made it happen.

I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.

Christian abolitionists gave their lives by the hundreds of thousands to end slavery.

If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.

It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.

The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

We all have a responsibility to create a just society

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.