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David Wilmot

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

David Wilmot, American Activist
Slavery, Congress, Future
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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."

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

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

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

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"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."

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

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

Bob Marley, Jamaican Musician
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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."

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