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Quotes from Letter to Robert Pleasants — Patrick Henry

1736–1799 United States

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I shall honour the Quakers for their noble Effort to abolish Slavery. It is equally calculated to promote moral & political Good.

Letter to Robert Pleasants (1773)

I will not, I cannot justify it.

Letter to Robert Pleasants (1773)

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.

Letter to Robert Pleasants (1773)

It is not a little Surprising that Christianity, whose chief excellence consists of softening the human heart, in cherishing and improving its finer Feelings, should encourage a Practice so totally repugnant to the first Impression of Right and Wrong. What adds to the wonder is that this Abominable Practice has been introduced in the most enlightened Ages.

Letter to Robert Pleasants (1773)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Patrick Henry (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.