- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- Ocala, FL (as of December, 2015).
"Slavery....that slow Poison, which is daily contaminating the Minds & Morals of our People. Every Gentlemen here is born a petty Tyrant. Practiced in Acts of Despotism & Cruelty, we become callous to the Dictates of Humanity, & all the finer feelings of the Soul. Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject & contempitible Degree below us, we lose that idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great & useful purposes."
--George Mason, July, 1773, Virginia Constitutional Convention.
--George Mason, July, 1773, Virginia Constitutional Convention.