“We will first inquire into the results of the approbation or displeasure of God upon a people, starting with the belief that a black skin is a mark of the curse of heaven placed upon some portions of mankind … We understand that when God made man in his own image and pronounced him very good, that he made him white.”

Juvenile Instructor – Volume 3, no. 20 (Salt Lake City, UT: George Q. Cannon, 15 October 1868), 157.