top of page
.png){kind=small}
"It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Slavery quotes
"The master doesn't need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a pen, but the pressing call of necessity will reestablish it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Slavery is malignantly aristocratic."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by John H. Reagan
"The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery."
Change
"The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars."
People
"The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men."
Man
"You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers."
People
"But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been."
Independence
"It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union."
Slavery
"The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion."
Conflict
bottom of page