Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Allen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a bishop Richard Allen.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Richard Allen was a minister, educator, writer, and one of America's most active and influential Black leaders. In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the first independent Black denomination in the United States. He opened his first AME church in 1794 in Philadelphia.

Bishop | February 14, 1760 - March 26, 1831

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According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.

Richard Allen

Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.

Richard Allen

Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.

Richard Allen

The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

Richard Allen

The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red earth and the deep blue sky of the Dreamtime region that has for centuries sustained Namatjira's Aranda people.

Richard Allen

Just learn from your mistakes..and for give yourself..and better yourself:)

Richard Allen

I didn't accept it. I received it.

Richard Allen

Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.

Richard Allen

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Allen

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