Tao Te Ching
Benjamin Lay
1682 – 1759 CE
Benjamin Lay (1682 - 1759)
Physical dwarf but moral giant, “the world’s first revolutionary abolitionist,” inspiration for generations, wild, confrontational, and uncompromising opponent of slavery; Benjamin Lay wrote over 200 polemics against slavery, sweatshops, over-consumptions, capital punishment, the prison system, decadent rich elites, and for vegetarianism, animal rights and sustainability. Living a lifestyle of almost complete self-sustenance, he grew his his own food, made his own clothes, lived in a cave eating only fruits and vegetables, and wouldn’t use anything that came from the killing of animals. Unconstrained even when abandoned by his fellow Quakers (who later commonly kept pictures of him in their homes), he became the prototype of a class and race-conscious, environmental ultra radical and pioneered ways of protesting still used today.
Lineages
American (USA) British Christian Humanism
Eras
Chinese
Qing dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE)Sources
All Slave-Keepers That keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates
Quotes by Benjamin Lay (3 quotes)
“slavery - a Practice so gross & hurtful to Religion, and destructive to government, beyond what Words can set forth”
from All Slave-Keepers That keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates
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“There can be no greater Hypocrisy than for us as a People, to refuse to bear Arms and yet purchase Slaves at a very great Price, thereby justifying their selling of them, and the War, by which they were or are obtained;”
from All Slave-Keepers That keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates
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“Fear not what they can do to you; greater is he that is in you than he that is in the World”
from All Slave-Keepers That keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates
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