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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.
A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.
To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.
Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.
The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.
I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.
Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history?
The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.
Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.
Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.
It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves.
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose.
Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.
Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.
The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
Slavery, first and foremost, was an energy institution. Shackling human muscle was about getting work done.
A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.
I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery
My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.