American - Clergyman | November 9, 1802 - November 7, 1837
If I am not safe in Alton, I shall not be safe anywhere.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
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If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.
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If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to mould and guide me at His will; tho I dare not say that I am, at present, willing to do it.
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As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so.
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Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.
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