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PHILOSOPHY > clergyman, abolitionist > Henry Highland Garnet
The humblest peasant...
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The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.
Source: An Address to the Slaves of the U.S. of America, speech given at the National Negro Convention, Buffalo, NY, Aug 1843.
-- Henry Highland Garnet, (Dec 23 1815-1882), US clergyman, abolitionist; He was an early proponent of armed revolt against slaveholders; first Black clergyman to deliver a sermon in Congress; ambassador to Liberia, 1881.