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I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.
For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.
How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned?
Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.
It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Life without the courage to die is slavery.
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
No one chains a slave without chaining himself.
Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.
We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.
Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.
Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.
Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.
Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word - slavery. I would tell any young artist... don't sign.
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.
Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
In the end, of course, Republicans ended slavery and permanently outlawed it through the Thirteenth Amendment.
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.
Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)