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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
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.
- Declaring
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
- Characterized
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- Nov 07, 2020
When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.
- Enslave
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I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery, first and foremost, was an energy institution. Shackling human muscle was about getting work done.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020