"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."

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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."

Helen Hunt Jackson, American Writer

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"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."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"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."

Helen Hunt Jackson, American Writer

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"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"

Bob Marley, Jamaican Musician

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"Slavery is malignantly aristocratic."

Antoinette Blackwell, American Clergyman

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"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."

Harriet Ann Jacobs, American Writer

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"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico."

David Wilmot, American Activist

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"Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation."

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"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."

Man

"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."

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"Not all the coal that is dug warms the world."

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"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives."

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"I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me."

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"In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?"

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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."

"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."

"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."

"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."

"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."

"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"

"Slavery is malignantly aristocratic."

"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."

"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico."

Explore more quotes by Mary Harris Jones

"Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation."

"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."

"I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people."

"I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class."

"I abide where there is a fight against wrong."

"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."

"Not all the coal that is dug warms the world."

"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives."

"I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me."

"In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?"