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Slavery Quotes
"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
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"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
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"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."
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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."
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"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
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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."
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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."
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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
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"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
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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."
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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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"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."
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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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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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"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."
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