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

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

John Ruskin, English Writer

Slavery,

"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."

Samuel Hopkins, American Clergyman

Slavery, Word

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

Helen Hunt Jackson, American Writer

Slavery, Trees

"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

Slavery, Needs, Master, Pen

"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

Slavery, Blind, Circumstance, Connection, Majority

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

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

Slavery, Prejudice, Observation, Humanity

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Slavery, Comfort, Privilege, Ignorance

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

Bob Marley, Jamaican Musician

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"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."

Helen Hayes, American Actress

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"Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Slavery, Life, History, Truth

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"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."

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"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."

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"Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs."

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"I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source."

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"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."

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"If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet."

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"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."

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

"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."

"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!"

"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."

"Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized."

Explore more quotes by Andrew Johnson

"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."

"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."

"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."

"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide."

"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."

"Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs."

"I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source."

"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."

"If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet."

"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."