Proclamation Quotes

• You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Emancipation
  • Proclamation
  • Retracted

• The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Work
  • Faith
  • Alone

• The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Heart
  • Course
  • Proclamation

• We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Listening
  • Christ
  • Legalism

• The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation.

  

  Melville Fuller
  • Constitution
  • Property
  • Emancipation

• I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Present
  • Slavery
  • Declaration

• Everyone, no matter what their marital circumstance or number of children, can be defenders of the Lord’s plan described in the family proclamation. If it is the Lord’s plan, it should also be our plan!

  

  Bonnie L. Oscarson
  • Children
  • Family
  • Circumstance

• To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.

  

  William Henry Willimon
  • Speak
  • Gospel
  • Attempting

• I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

  

  Ernesto Cardenal
  • I Think
  • Gospel
  • Attitudes

• If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace slave labor? What system of race relations is going to replace the race relations of slavery? Who is going to have power in the post-war South? The Emancipation Proclamation doesn't answer that question, but it throws it open.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Slavery
  • Labor
  • Relations