If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.
– Richard Allen
The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.
– Richard Allen
This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
– Richard Allen
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.
– Richard Allen
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.