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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.
It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.
..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.
The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.
Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.
If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.
It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.
Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy.
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.
When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.
If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.
Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.
Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.
There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.
Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
I see the NCAA holding off as long as possible to continue to make money off of its players. It's almost like modern day slavery.
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.
In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery
To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
No, Islam did not free African-Americans from slavery, not in Africa and not in Europe or America. Evangelical Christianity did that.
We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.
Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them.
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.