slavery Quotes

“Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

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“A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar,—and to hate slavery for other reasons than because it starves men and whips women,—before he is ready to lay the first stone of...”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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“Slavery, as we shall afterwards show, dishonors labor; it introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind, and benumbs the activity of man.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free—honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

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“The inhabitants of these areas, reduced more or less openly to the status of slaves, pass continually from conqueror to conqueror”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“In a certain sense the liberation of slaves is the destruction of property—property acquired by descent or by purchase, the same as any other property.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

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“And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty?”

― Plato, The Republic

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“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

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“Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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