- 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.
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- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
- Defenders
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery.
- Firm
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a firm believer in slavery.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020