- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery Quotes
On bondage, freedom, and an unfinished history.
These lines address slavery mainly through history: a hope for compromise before change occurred, ongoing modern efforts to identify and stop forced labor, and reflections on how one person's freedom has often depended on someone else's bondage. See History quotes for related context.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
- Fields
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christian abolitionists gave their lives by the hundreds of thousands to end slavery.
- Stand
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got to stand up at some point and say, 'We are not gonna pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress.' That war's been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood, and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees, especially. And there's no reparations for the blood that paid for the sin of slavery.
- Betrayal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
- Oppression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.
- Chains
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- Nov 07, 2020
A binding treaty and mandatory human rights due diligence would clean up slavery in global supply chains. Workers demand it, and consumers demand it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know an organised workforce cannot be enslaved, but when governments fail their citizens and allow corporations to escape the rule of law, slavery can flourish.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
- Divine
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Forfeit
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- Nov 07, 2020
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose the Republican Party because of the principles the party was founded on. This was the party of freedom. This was the party that sought the abolition of slavery.
- Demanded
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- Nov 07, 2020