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Slavery Quotes

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"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
Helen Hunt Jackson
"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."
Andrew Johnson
"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
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"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."
Helen Hayes
"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."
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"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
Bob Marley
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
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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
"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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"Slavery is malignantly aristocratic."
Antoinette Blackwell
"Slavery is malignantly aristocratic."
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"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico."
David Wilmot
"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico."
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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."
Samuel Hopkins
"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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"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
"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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"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
"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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"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"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
"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."
Harriet Ann Jacobs
"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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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
John Ruskin
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
Harriet Ann Jacobs
"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
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"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
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"Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized."
Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized."
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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
"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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