Slavery Quotes
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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.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.
Ingrid Newkirk
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And if there were any such, they have never been condemned to slavery by any who are proper judges, or had any authority to act in the affair.
Samuel Hopkins
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Dead white guys built this country. Show some gratitude and show some reverence. But as far as slavery, yeah. It's part of history. And you know what? It's something we should be proud of. Because we ended it.
Gavin McInnes
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It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
William Labov
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I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Abraham Lincoln
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I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
Abraham Lincoln
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'Man's inhumanity to man' is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.
Alexander Berkman
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My inclination is to whip the rebellion into submission, preserving all Constitutional rights. If it cannot be whipped any other way than through a war against slavery, let it come to to that legitimately. If it is necessary that slavery should fall that the Republic may continue its existence, let slavery go.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
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The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel.
Wafa Sultan
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When annual elections end, there slavery begins.
John Adams