Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.

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These are some quotes by American author Elijah Parish Lovejoy Clergyman, who lived between November 9, 1802 and November 7, 1837.

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I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

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It seems to me scarcely possible that one who has so long lived in sin, who has resisted so much light and has so often grieved away the Holy Spirit, as I have, should again be visited with its heavenly influences. But I hope it is so.

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Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.

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