Gerrit Smith

thumb|Gerrit Smith Gerrit Smith (born and died in New York, USA; 6 March, 1797 – 28 December, 1874), also spelled Gerritt Smith, was an social reformer, abolitionist, businessman, public intellectual, and philanthropist. Quotes The most effectual of all ways for making ourselves feel morally whole, and for attaining to the greatest heights of self-complacency, is to fall upon others for the sins of which we are ourselves guilty. "No Treason in Civil War" (June 8, 1865 pamphlet) I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. Speech on the Mexican Treaty and "Monroe Doctrine" (June 27, 1854). Collected in Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress (1855) But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash. Speech on the reference of the President's Message (December 20, 1853). Collected in Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress (1855) Quotes about Gerrit Smith When Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Lewis Tappan, Wendell Phillips, Gerrit Smith, and a host of such speak of services rendered, we know what they mean-they have looked in the opposite direction from Mr. Redpath for thirty years—they toiled in our cause when it cost something, and their noble sacrifices, crop out into a harvest of gratitude from the entire colored people. Mary Ann Shadd, "Haytian Emigration" published in Weekly Anglo-African (September 28, 1861). Collected in Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist edited by Nneka D. Dennie (2024) External links Author:Gerrit Smith Gerrit Smith Gerrit Smith Collection at Syracuse University The Gerrit Smith Virtual Museum (New York History Net) Category:1797 births Category:1874 deaths Category:Activists from the United States Category:Social activists Category:Abolitionists Category:Businesspeople from the United States Category:Philanthropists from the United States Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives