"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."

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"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."

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

Bob Marley, Jamaican Musician

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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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"If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls."

Harriet Ann Jacobs, American Writer

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"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"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."

John H. Reagan, American Politician

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"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."

Helen Hayes, American Actress

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

Mary Harris Jones, American Activist

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

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