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In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.
Frederick Douglass
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And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves,
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Robert Treat Paine
Quotes , Source: Ode--Adams and Liberty
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
Simone de Beauvoir
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If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly
Martin Luther
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift
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Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you.
James Allen
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Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness
John Adams
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Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul,
that moment they are free.
[Lat., Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliae fines penetraverint
eodem momento liberi sunt.]
Jean Bodinus (Bodin)
Quotes , Source: bk. I, ch. V
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No more slave States and no more slave territory.
- Salmon Portland Chase,
Salmon Portland Chase
Quotes , Source: Resolutions Adopted at the Free-Soil National Convention
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Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy.
David Christy
Quotes , Source: Title of Book, pub. 1855
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It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of
His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme
acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological
inexactitude.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3)
Quotes , Source: in the British House of Commons
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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into
excessive slavery.
[Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem
cadit.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: De Republica (I, 44)
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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master
who should be slave.
[Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: Oratio Pro Rege Deiotaro (XI)
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I would not have a slave to till my ground,
To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,
And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth
That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Task (bk. II, l. 29)
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Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free;
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Task (bk. II, l. 40)
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I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community
can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we
must get rid of freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: The Assault upon Mr. Sumner's Speech
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Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
David Garrick
Quotes , Source: Prologue to Edward Moore's Gamesters
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Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the
South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell;
involving both parties in atrocious criminality, and should be
immediately annulled.
- William Lloyd Garrison,
William Lloyd Garrison
Quotes , Source: adopted by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at Fanueil Hall
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The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer,
that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
Henry George
Quotes , Source: Social Problems (ch. V)
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