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How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.
The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.
Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!
Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.
My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery
Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery.
Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.
No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.
The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.
Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.
The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.
Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.
We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.
I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.
Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?