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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."
51
"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."
49
"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."
45
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
39
"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
39
"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."
36
"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."
35
"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."
34
"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
30
"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
29
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
28
"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
25
"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."
25
"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."
24
"You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine. Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance-no matter how improved-as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children. Our triumphs can never compensate for this."
11
"As he plods behind Cameron and Summer, he can't help but stare at Summer's exposed, glistening skin. His thoughts aren't depraved or even mildly in the splasher. In fact, he focuses on the marks of cruelty crisscrossing her back, stomach, and shoulders. He trudges along, drenched, feet swollen, constantly searching for even a hint of a breeze, all while being forced to stare at the alarming network of burns traversing Summer's delicate skin. This latticework of hate reveals a brutal truth-one he can scarcely comprehend. Yes, he's glimpsed and felt her scars before, but this is the first time he's really, truly seen the severity and extent of her life as a slave. With each step, he must digest the monstrosities of her past, leaving him utterly devastated."
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