Daniel Kleven

“Thus, if the low grade of intelligence, virtue, and civilization of the African in America, disqualified him for being his own guardian, and if his own true welfare, and that of the community, would be plainly marred by this freedom; then the law decided correctly that the African here has no natural right to his self-control, as to his own labour and locomotion.”
― Robert Lewis Dabney, Systematic Theology

“For the African race, such as Providence has made it, and where He has placed it in America, slavery was the righteous, the best, yea, the only tolerable relation”
― Robert Lewis Dabney, A Defense of Virginia and the South

“An insuperable difference of race, made by God and not by man, and of character and social condition, makes it plainly impossible for a black man to teach and rule white Christians to edification.”
― Robert Lewis Dabney, Discussions - Vol 2: Evangelical

“If we allow ourselves even for a moment to contemplate the vast weight of suffering in the world, we will easily be overwhelmed with grief. This is why we develop the habit and self-protective instinct of overlooking the suffering around us.”
― Thabiti Anyabwile, The Life of God in the Soul of the Church The Root and Fruit of Spiritual Fellowship