Quaker Culture: Relieve Oppression
- Author(s):
- Benjamin Banneker
- Issue:
- On Dignity (July 2023)
- Department:
- Quaker Culture
[It] is the indispensable duty of those who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature . . . to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race from whatever burden or oppression they may unjustly labor under . . .
– Benjamin Banneker (1791)