William H. Seward Quotes
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
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My family background was deeply Christian.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
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I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
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I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
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The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
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Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
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Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
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There's only one thing to do with God's offer of the gift of salvation: Say "thank you" and embrace it.
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Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.
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If the expansion of a global legal regime for communication technologies gains traction, the effects to the global economy as well as our individual liberties will be severe.
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But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold - and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.
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Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
