Quote#Freedom
Our divine Lord and Master said, “all things whatsoever ye would that…
Quote byDavid Walker · 1785–1830
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Walker’s Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1830), p. 43.
English (original)
Our divine Lord and Master said, “all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them.” But an American minister, with the Bible in is hand, holds us and our children in the most abject slavery and wretchedness. Now I ask them, would they like for us to hold them and their children in abject slavery and wretchedness?
— David Walker
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