Elijah Parish Lovejoy : (3)

" 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

" As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same. " - Elijah Parish Lovejoy

" As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so. " - Elijah Parish Lovejoy