 | James Luther Adams - Religion - 1998 - 252 pages
...freedom that respects the divine image and dignity in each person, are dependable. As Lincoln put it, "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for...themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it." A faith that is not the sister of justice is bound to bring people to grief. It thwarts creation, a... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 522 pages
...warned the Democrats: "This is a world of compensations. He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." I tried to refute the argument of Fitzhugh and Hammond, that southern slave labor was superior to the... | |
 | Gisela Konopka - Social service - 1958 - 232 pages
...at the Welfare Assembly showed clearly Lindeman's turning away from a too-relativistic pragmatism. "All honor to Jefferson — to the man, who, in the...independence by a single people, had the coolness, foresight, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable... | |
 | Hugh Tulloch - History - 1999 - 276 pages
...to long-term racial equality: 'He who would be no slave,' Lincoln commented, 'must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.' And again: 'Why should they give their lives to us, with full notice of our purpose to betray them?'2'... | |
 | Howard Jones - Political Science - 1999 - 268 pages
...heightened the chances of the same plight for others. "He who would he no slave, must consent to hare no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves." The enslavement of any human being was the chief sign of tyranny and a serious threat to liberty. Consequently,... | |
 | Lucas E. Morel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 272 pages
...His wrath.80 Moreover, in a letter commemorating Thomas Jefferson's birthday, Lincoln declares that "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."81 This sentiment alludes to Thomas Jefferson's reflections on slavery from... | |
 | Brent K. Ashabranner, Brent Ashabranner - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 78 pages
...practice of slavery. "He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave," Lincoln wrote in 1859. "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not...themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain it." And in words that could not be clearer, he said, "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong." Lincoln... | |
 | Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui, Ricardo René Laremont - Africa - 2002 - 240 pages
...governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for...themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain it.'" — Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League, October 17, 1899, reprinted in Great Issues in... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...1859 he had pinpointed "the principles of Jefferson" as "the definitions and axioms of free society." All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the...coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a mere revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so embalm... | |
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This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. 
