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Life is dear to every living thing, the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

~ Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup Life

At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him; but place him in the midst of dangers, cut him off from human aid, let the grave open before him, then it is, in the time of his tribulation, that the scoffer and unbelieving man turns to God for help, feeling there is no other hope, or refuge, or safety, save in his protecting arm.

~ Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup Faith God Prayer Religion Spirituality Stress Trials And Tribulations Tribulations Worry

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.

~ Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup Blame Forgiveness Politics Slavery

The influence of the iniquitous system necessarily fosters an unfeeling and cruel spirit, even in the bosoms of those who, among their equals, are regarded as humane and generous.

~ Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup Cruelty Inequality Spirit

The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies. . . Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?

~ Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup Abolition Government Morality Natural Law

There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be a reckoning yet. . . there's a day coming that will burn as an oven. It may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just.

~ Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup Abolition Judgment Justice

There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ... it may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just

~ Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup Just Punishments Reckoning Sin Slavery

...So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man's inalienable right to life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness! Hail! Columbia, happy land, indeed!

~ Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup Americans Freedom Imprisonment Law Liberty Politics Sarcasm Slavery

No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

~ Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup Debt Economics

Strange as it may seem, within plain sight of this same house, looking down from its commanding height upon it, was the Capitol. The voices of patriotic representatives boasting of freedom and equality, and the rattling of the poor slave's chains, almost commingled. A slave pen within the very shadow of the Capitol!

~ Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup Slavery

I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed,The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.

~ Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup Slavery
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