There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious… — Gerrit Smith

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Gerrit SmithPolitician · American · 1797 – 1874

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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces. — William Shakespeare
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope. — Simon Newcomb
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. — Constance Baker Motley
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. — Gerrit Smith
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. — Gerrit Smith
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system. — Gerrit Smith