Frases de Owen Lovejoy
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Owen Lovejoy fue un abogado americano, ministro congregacional, abolicionista y miembro del congreso Republicano por Illinois. También fue un "conductor" en el Ferrocarril subterráneo. Después de que su hermano Elijah Lovejoy fue asesinado en noviembre de 1837 por grupos a favor de la esclavitud esclavitud, Owen se convirtió en el líder de los abolicionistas en Illinois. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. enero 1811 – 25. marzo 1864
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Owen Lovejoy: Frases en inglés

“Now comes the objection which you hear in the mouths of Democrats everywhere. Negro equality! Negro equality! The "Black Republicans" are in favor of negro equality!”

Owen Lovejoy

As quoted in His Brother&#x27;s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838&amp;ndash;64 https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&amp;pg=PA239 (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 239 <br class="br">1860s, Speech (October 1860)

“The testimony of all religious societies in the slave states is that the slaves are heathen and it is an utter impossibility to Christianize them and civilize them by this process.”

Owen Lovejoy

As quoted in His Brother&#x27;s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838&amp;ndash;64 https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&amp;pg=PA193&amp;lpg=PA198 (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 198 <br class="br">1860s, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (April 1860)

“I know that this is a pro-slavery rebellion, for it is nothing else. Slavery and rebellion are identical and freedom and loyalty are identical, and those slave-holders who are truly loyal will soon become abolitionists, for that is the logic of their position and they will see as I see, that slavery must perish and pro-slavery men will be secessionists.”

Owen Lovejoy

Speech https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&amp;pg=PA293&amp;dq=%22Pro-Slavery+Rebellion%22&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjtq-fys9zSAhWM4yYKHUaWBNIQ6AEIMjAE#v=onepage&amp;q=%22Pro-Slavery%20Rebellion%22&amp;f=false (January 1862) <br class="br">1860s

“I love the Constitution. It is enshrined in my heart. I love it better than any dozen Democrats in the land do tonight.”

Owen Lovejoy

As quoted in His Brother&#x27;s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838&amp;ndash;64 https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&amp;pg=PA243 (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 243 <br class="br">1860s, Speech (October 1860)

“Is it desired to call attention to this fact? Proclaim it upon the house-tops! Write it upon every leaf that trembles in the forest! Make it blaze from the sun at high noon and shine forth in the radiance of every star that bedecks the firmament of God. Let it echo through all the arches of heaven, and reverberate and bellow through all the deep gorges of hell, where slave catchers will be very likely to hear it. Owen Lovejoy lives at Princeton, Illinois, three-quarters of a mile east of the village, and he aids every fugitive that comes to his door and asks it. Thou invisible demon of slavery! Dost thou think to cross my humble threshold, and forbid me to give bread to the hungry and shelter to the houseless? I bid you defiance in the name of my God.”

Owen Lovejoy

As quoted in His Brother&#x27;s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838&amp;ndash;64 https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&amp;pg=PA178 (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 178 <br class="br">Also quoted in The History of Abraham Lincoln, and the Overthrow of Slavery http://books.google.com/books?id=RW0FAAAAQAAJ&amp;pg=PA225, by Isaac Newton Arnold <br class="br">Also quoted as Yes, I do assist fugitive slaves to escape! Proclaim it upon the house-tops; write it upon every leaf that trembles in the forest; make it blaze from the sun at high noon, and shine forth in the radiance of every star that bedecks the firmament of God. Let it echo through all the arches of heaven, and reverberate and bellow through all the deep gorges of hell, where slave catchers will be very likely to hear it. Owen Lovejoy lives at Princeton, Illinois, and he aids every fugitive that comes to his door and asks it. Thou invisible demon of slavery! Dost thou think to cross my humble threshold, and forbid me to give bread to the hungry and shelter to the houseless? I bid you defiance in the name of God. <br class="br">1850s, The Fanaticism of the Democratic Party (February 1859)

“I am speaking in dead earnest, before God. God's own truth. It has the violence of robbery, the blood and cruelty of piracy. It has the offensive and brutal lusts of polygamy, all combined and concentrated in itself, with aggravations that neither one of these crimes ever knew or dreamed of.”

Owen Lovejoy

As quoted in His Brother&#x27;s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838&amp;ndash;64 https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&amp;pg=PA192 (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 193 <br class="br">1860s, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (April 1860)

“Nobody can intimidate me.”

Owen Lovejoy

In response to threats by Democrats who were incensed by his anti-slavery remarks, as quoted in His Brother&#x27;s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838&amp;ndash;64 https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&amp;pg=PA193&amp;lpg=PA194e (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 194 <br class="br">1860s, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (April 1860)

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