06 7 / 2012
"It is the statement of missionaries, that, of all the races of the earth, none have received the Gospel with such eager docility as the African. The principle of reliance and unquestioning faith, which is its foundation, is more a native element in this race than any other…"
06 7 / 2012
"My country again! Mr. Wilson, you have a country; but what country have I, or any one like me, born of slave mothers? What laws are there for us? We don’t make them,-we don’t consent to them,-we have nothing to do with them; all they do for us is to crush us and keep us down."
06 7 / 2012
"These words of an ancient volume,…have, through all time, kept up, somehow, a strange sort of power over the minds of poor, simple fellows."
06 7 / 2012
I want to plant something in your mind.
I strongly encourage everyone to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin for it has insight into a world many of us were absent from but feel very much attached to.
I will be posting quotes from the book that made me dig deep within myself; hopefully it does the same for you.
“Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for a religion, I must look for something above me and not something beneath.”
20 9 / 2011
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
(via redemption-songs)
18 9 / 2011
"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."
20 8 / 2011
"And maybe the measure of our reading should therefore be, not the number of books we’ve read, but the state in which they leave us. What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive."
(via neutral-state)
