Quotes by Elijah Parish Lovejoy - Page 1

I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Blessing
Eternal
Opposition
Slavery
God Will Never
Sworn
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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.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Peace
Cry
Ears
My Soul
Oppressed
Soul
Cannot
Entered
Hold
While
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If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Determined
Refuse
Authorities
God Look Me
Grave
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I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Abuse
Land
Sentiments
Speak
Freely
Subject
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Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Conviction
Emancipation
Propriety
Slave
Act
Free
Master
Performed
Value
Voluntary
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Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Covenant
Mercy
Sin
Unbelief
God Me Mercy
Sins
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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 / Journalist
Advise
Honor
Love World Your
Earnestly
Obey
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I have concluded, after consultation with my friends and earnestly seeking counsel of God, to remain at Alton, and here to insist on protection in the exercise of my rights.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Consultation
Protection
Seeking
Concluded
Counsel
Earnestly
Insist
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I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down - I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Compromise
Principles
Surrender
Alternative
Life Truth World
Besides
Error
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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.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Injustice
Usurpation
Convert
Flagrant
Thus
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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 / Journalist
Soil
Cultivated
Drawn
Flag
Formed
Heads
Waves
Whip
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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 / Journalist
Desert
Protect
Die
Appeal
Cause
Cheerfully
Rest
Fail
Post
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If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to mould and guide me at His will; tho I dare not say that I am, at present, willing to do it.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Dare
Mould
Resigning
Guide
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But gentlemen, 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.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Running
Blood
Writing
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I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Jesus
Accepted
Assurance
Blessed
Divine
Feet
Grace
Lay
Polluted
Receive
Sinful
Sins
Sorrows
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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 / Journalist
Eternal
Infinite
Jehovah
Scorn
Son
Laugh
Provide
Reject
Sacrificing
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Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Cease
Emancipation
Necks
Held
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I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Elsewhere
Protection
Retreat
Claim
Overtake
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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 / Journalist
Circumstances
Colour
Destroyed
Different Times
Eternal
Truth Is
Unchanging
Yield
Operate
Prevail
View
Though
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As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Bible
Cease
Repentance
Sin
Approve
Immediate
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Fortune has, in the main, hitherto looked unfavourably upon me since I left home, but I begin to hope for better things. Still, in all my past distresses, one thought has consoled me - I have learned to appreciate a parent's love.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Parent
Better Things
Hitherto
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It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian - ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Forsake
Thousand
Easiest
Easiest Thing
Motives
Induce
Presents
Thousand Times
Unto
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It seems to me scarcely possible that one who has so long lived in sin, who has resisted so much light and has so often grieved away the Holy Spirit, as I have, should again be visited with its heavenly influences. But I hope it is so.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Heavenly
Holy
Holy Spirit
Sin
Influences
Resisted
Scarcely
Visited
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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 / Journalist
Amenable
Blood
Country
Liberty
Long
Please
Publish
Speak
Veins
Laws
Myself I Am Long
Am
American Citizen
Any
Same
Write
Myself Long I Am
Citizen
Whatever
Hold
Runs
Shall
Subject
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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 / Journalist
Fear God
Considerations
Favor
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Good Opinion
Governed
Highly
Impelled
Permitted
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If I have been guilty of no violation of law, why am I hunted up and down continually like a partridge upon the mountains? Why am I threatened with the tar barrel? Why am I waylaid every day, and from night to night, and my life in jeopardy every hour?
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Guilty
Hunted
Jeopardy
Threatened
Up And Down
Violation
Barrel
Mountains
Continually
Life Night Day
Tar
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I am sure I ought not to be, but I have great reason to tremble lest Satan and my own wicked heart get the better of me. It is no easy matter to fight such enemies as these, but with Christ strengthening me, I know I shall come off more than a conquerer.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Ought
Satan
Strengthening
Wicked
Enemies
Lest
Tremble
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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 / Journalist
Arrested
Dear
Eternal
Holy
Holy Spirit
Long
Mercy
Perdition
Saved
Sovereign
Tears
Wonder
Could
Entirely
Me Long Parents
Parents
Incomprehensible
Influences
Prayers
Resisted
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Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Alone
Birth
Born
Country
Race
Sin
Slavery
Free
Hold
Held
Introduced
Slaves
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