Dark and terrible as is this picture, I hold it to be strictly true of the overwhelming mass of professed Christians in America. They strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Could anything be more true of our churches? They would be shocked at the proposition of...
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its mighty...
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: Knowledge makes a person unfit to be a slave.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.-------------------------Gender-inclusive version: It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.
Between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked....I am filled with unutterable...