Sunday, March 11, 2012

A quote for our time

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”

-Frederick Douglss (1818-1895), former slave, abolitionist and political activist.

Given the Obama administration's attack on the Catholic Church, this is a very good principle for people of faith, and Catholics in particular, to keep in mind.

2 comments:

Iosue Andreas Sartorius said...

Great quote from a great man buried here in Rochester.

Mark in Spokane said...

A great man, a great American, and a great advocate for freedom and humanity. Not a man without faults -- none of us are -- but a man who by his voice and dignity demonstrated the fundamental lie at the heart of slavery.