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Slavery Quotes
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. - Angela Davis Quotes
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. - Virginia Woolf Quotes
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. - Alfred Marshall Quotes
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. - Robert Dale Owen Quotes
It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union. - John H Reagan Quotes
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them! - George Gissing Quotes
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. - Henry Charles Carey Quotes
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state. - William H Seward Quotes
In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation. - Samuel Hopkins Quotes
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a mans worth on the day when slavery comes upon him. - Homer Quotes
The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death. - Robert Toombs Quotes
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. - James A Garfield Quotes
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority. - William H Seward Quotes
For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak. - Agnes Smedley Quotes
Sir, our forefathers would not have hesitated an hour. They found slavery existing here, and they left it only because they could not remove it. - William H Seward Quotes
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
There is no slavery but ignorance. - Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. - William Weld Quotes
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. - Henry Charles Carey Quotes
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want. - James F Cooper Quotes
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. - Thomas Huxley Quotes
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition. - Thomas Clarkson Quotes
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. - William Blake Quotes
Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. - David Wilmot Quotes
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. - Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. - John Ruskin Quotes
Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave. - Mike Tyson Quotes
Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies. - Jonathan Mayhew Quotes
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. - Thomas Sowell Quotes
Slavery has never been abolished from Americas way of thinking. - Nina Simone Quotes
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