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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.
...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep
For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.
Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.
When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.
In the end, of course, Republicans ended slavery and permanently outlawed it through the Thirteenth Amendment.
You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.
War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.
Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.
Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.
Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word - slavery. I would tell any young artist... don't sign.
The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.
When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.
Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.
Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.
What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.
It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.
As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.
Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
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.
[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.
Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.
The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended too.
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.
Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.
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.
For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.
In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.