Lynn Woolsey Quotes

Every man, however slenderly provided with common sense must perceive that slavery was iniquitous and attrocious ... repugnant to the laws of nature and the principles of morality and religion, and militates against the very intentions of society, and the happiness of the human race.

I most sincerely wish there was not a slave in the province. It has always seemed a most iniquitous scheme to me—to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

I'm really bothered by questions of humanity, questions of war, questions of slavery.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Injustice can never be stood for.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilating all his personal rights, without the most flagrant injustice and usurpation.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

The question of Socialism is the most important and imperative question of the age. It will divide, is now dividing, society into two camps. In which camp will you elect to stand? On the one side there are individualism and competition - leading to a 'great trade' and great miseries. On the other side is justice, without which can come no good, from which can come no evil. On the one hand, are ranged all the sages, all the saints, all the martyrs, all the noble manhood and pure womanhood of the world; on the other hand, are the tyrant, the robber, the man-slayer, the libertine, the usurer, the slave-driver, the drunkard, and the sweater. Choose your party, then, my friend, and let us get to the fighting.

Protect the people from the oppression of dictatorships.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

The people have been plundered by profiteers... [Saying] that is not demagogy; it is democracy—the democracy of Jefferson. It is not radicalism; it is republicanism—the republicanism of Lincoln.

For half a century past, the African slave-trade began to awaken a spirit of remorse and sympathy in the breasts of men, and a conviction that the traffic was repugnant to the principles of Christian duty, and the maxims of justice and humanity

I hold no views which any conservative citizen might not entertain on slavery...trading slaves is against humanity, unjust, and impolitic.

From today onwards, all tyranny, injustice, atrocities, deportations and massacres are banished from this country.

As slavery is a moral evil, it ought to be removed as speedily as possible, and trust the consequences of such duty in the hands of unerring Providence.

Slavery is right, just, and lawful and consequently practiced every day.

The chief agent responsible for promoting the passions at the expense of justice turns out to be wealth.

Although the ideal of free enterprise could, indeed, lend itself to the uplifting of the human condition, when it is practiced for profit alone, it becomes but a license for the powerful to further enslave the weak.

Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.