4 Quotes & Sayings By William Apess

William Apess (1763-1839) was a Native American who was born in Boston, Massachusetts. After growing up his father moved the family to what is now Rhode Island and then to Charleston, South Carolina. William was educated at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia and served as a private in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. After the war, he served as a Commissioner of Indian Affairs and settled in Mount Hope, Massachusetts with his wife and family Read more

He became a popular and respected member of society and was instrumental in establishing an Indian school.

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the...
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The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits. William Apess
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You and I have to rejoice that we have not to answer for our fathers’ crimes, neither shall we do right to charge them one to another. We can only regret it, and flee from it, and from henceforth, let peace and righteousness be written upon our hearts and hands forever. William Apess
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We want trumpets that sound like thunder, and men to act as though they were going to war with those corrupt and degrading principles that rob one of all rights, merely because he is ignorant, and of a little different color. Let us have principles that will give every one his due; and then shall wars cease, and the weary find rest. William Apess