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As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Am American American Citizen Any Being Blood Citizen Country Hold Laws Liberty Long Myself Please Publish Runs Same Shall Speak Subject Veins Whatever Write I Am

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The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

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The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster!

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Blood Cultivated Drawn Flag Formed Freedom Heads Material Our Over Republican Slaves Soil Them Very Waves Whip

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While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Am Anyone Because Citizens Considerations Course Either Favor Fear Fear God Fellow Fellow Citizens God Good Good Opinion Governed Higher Highly Impelled Man May Opinion Permitted Say Taken Than Value While I Am

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Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Arrested Could Dear Entirely Eternal Holy Holy Spirit How Incomprehensible Influences Long Me Mercy Miracle Nothing Parents Perdition Prayers Resisted Saved Sovereign Spirit Tears Wonder

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I have appealed to the constitution and laws of my country; if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God, and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Appeal Appealed Cannot Cause Cheerfully Constitution Country Desert Die Fail God Him Laws Me Post Protect Rest I Can

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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.

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I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Advise Again Earnestly Expect Find Friends Honor Like Love Most Need Obey Parents Them World You Your

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The eternal God - the infinite Jehovah - has done all he could do - even to the sacrificing his own Son - to provide a way for man's happiness, and yet they reject him, hate him, and laugh him to scorn!

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Could Done Eternal Even God Happiness Hate He Him His Infinite Jehovah Laugh Man Own Provide Reject Sacrificing Scorn Son Way

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Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Circumstances Colour Destroyed Different Different Times Eternal Give May Must Operate Our Prevail Those Though Times Truth Truth Is Unchanging View Who Will Yield

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: November 9th, 1802

Died: November 7th, 1837

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