“I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.”
Lecture, The Anti-Slavery Movement http://books.google.pt/books?id=wN9Dj-_wM0IC&pg=PA33&dq=%22I+would+unite+with+anybody+to+do+right+and+with+nobody+to+do+wrong.%22&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22I%20would%20unite%20with%20anybody%20to%20do%20right%20and%20with%20nobody%20to%20do%20wrong.%22&f=false (1855)
1850s
Variant: I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.
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American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman 1818–1895Related quotes
“Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.”
Program 19
Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)
1970s, Remarks on pardoning Nixon (1974)
Context: My conscience tells me it is my duty, not merely to proclaim domestic tranquillity but to use every means that I have to insure it.
I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.
I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.
Finally, I feel that Richard Nixon and his loved ones have suffered enough and will continue to suffer, no matter what I do, no matter what we, as a great and good nation, can do together to make his goal of peace come true.
http://www.gothamist.com/2007/05/29/bloombergs_memo.php
Illegal Immigration
“Do not violate anybody’s right.”
Flow of Divine Guidance (vol.1)
“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.”
March 11, 1958.
The Geographical History of America (1936)
