The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
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?
Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D. C. , is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
Man alone can enslave man.
Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
Now we have to understand that slavery would not have ended if it was left to the Africans alone, Now, Europe understood that what they were doing then was unjust, but imagine the propaganda from kings and queens of Europe to convince their people that we were cannibals, idol worshipers, horrible people, bastards, godless monkeys.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. . . . The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.
Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.
I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. . . socialism is a new form of slavery.
What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.
Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.