Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness.
— John Adams
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Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty. Let us hear the danger of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence, in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God, that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness, and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven, liberty, peace, and good-will to man!
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• Source: Wikiquote: "John Adams" (Quotes, 1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765):
A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765))
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Name: John Adams (1766)
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Date: 1766date QS:P571,+1766-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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