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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
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We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
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Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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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.
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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As a Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union, I felt it was ridiculous to expect me to atone for the sins of slavery and segregation, to say nothing of the household drudgery and workplace discrimination suffered by women.
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Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
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We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.
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Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
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I was taught about slavery, but it was the ancient Egyptians. That's the closest I got to African history.
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Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.
- Constitution Of The United States
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