 They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think : They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two...  David Easterbrook, by Tregelles Polkinghorne - Page 162by rev. William John Hocking - 1883Full view - About this book
 | 1879 - 556 pages
...earth illustrious by their lives? " They arc slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing,...slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three." God grant us all this bravery to speak the truth and seek it too, to follow our sacred convictions... | |
 | 1880 - 918 pages
...advanced guard of Slavery Abolition : They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing,...slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. Slaves they might be, but in those days to be in the right with two or three meant to be assaulted... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 pages
...to be Earnest to make others free ! They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing,...slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. COLUMBUS. THE cordage creaks and rattles in the wind, With freaks of sudden hush ; the reeling sea... | |
 | John Morrison Davidson - 1880 - 274 pages
...of nobility, and that no sovereign can either confer or take away. XI. THE HON. AUBERON HERBERT. " They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three." WHEN a patrician like the Hon. Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert comes to figure as a strenuous... | |
 | 1880 - 432 pages
...ir the fallen and the weak ; They nre slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Kather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think ; They are slave* who dare not he In the ripht with two or three. Slaves they might be, but in those days to be... | |
 | 1914 - 1240 pages
...by James Russell Lowell, which says: "They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing...slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three." "Stand close to all, but lean on none, And if the crowd desert you, Stand just as fearlessly alone... | |
 | Charles T. Sprading - 1913 - 550 pages
...good cause requires. — Cbas, A. Dana. They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing,...not be In the right with two or three. — Lowell. If governments are to accept the principle that the only limits to the enforcement of the moral standard... | |
 | 1926 - 910 pages
...him for a class-motto from his own writings. Mr. Lowell wrote a brief letter in reply and suggested: They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. I was a member of that high school class, and "here goes." Swarms are more likely to issue from colonies... | |
 | Barbara Ann Roberts - 1996 - 418 pages
...Versus "The Reign of Force " (1918-19) " 'They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak. They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing...slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.' " NCF vigillers sang this verse outside the Welford Road prison in Leicester where Gertrude's brother... | |
 | Hubert H. Harrison - 1997 - 154 pages
...force of what another American meant when he told the young men of his age : "They are slaves who dare not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, Rather than...slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three." A people under the heels of oppression has more need of heroic souls than one for whom the world is... | |
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