The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.
Source: How African Americans nursed the population during an 1793 epidemic; in A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, during the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in 1793 with Absalom Jones.
-- Richard Allen, (Feb 14 1760-1831), US religious leader, activist; He was a leader of free Blacks who opposed the resettlement of free blacks to Africa; first bishop of the Africa Methodist Episcopal Church.