Robert Dale Owen

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#command #decision #even #evil #mankind

Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#assured #cannot #country #existing #forward

How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself! ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#found #foundation #high #how #numerous

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#been #bondage #families #great #held

It is idle to await unanimity. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#idle #unanimity

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#almighty #enlightened #freedom #instrument #men

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#advance #boldly #done #endless #find

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#emergencies #ever #follow #great #leader

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#cannot #ceremony #divest #gives #i

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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