Slavery Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
35 Slavery Quotes
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The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them
slaves. . . . But I will not characterize that class at the North
with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere,
it is eternal.
James H. Hammond
Quotes , Source: in a speech in the U.S. Senate
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave
and half free.
Abraham Lincoln
Quotes , Source: in a speech
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In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the
free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
Abraham Lincoln
Quotes , Source: Annual Message to Congress
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[England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to
breathe in.
Capel Lofft
Quotes , Source: Reports (p. 2, Margrave's Argument)
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They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
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They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.
James Russell Lowell
Quotes , Source: Stanzas on Freedom (last stanza)
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The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every
man is free who breathes it.
Sir James Mansfield
Quotes , Source: said in the case of a black man, James Somerset, carried from Africa to Jamaica and sold
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Execrable son! so to aspire
Above his brethren, to himself assuming
Authority usurp'd, from God not given.
He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
Dominion absolute; that right we hold
By his donation; but man over men
He made not lord; such title to himself
Reserving, human left from human free.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 64)
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Where bastard Freedom waves
Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Thomas Moore
Quotes , Source: To the Lord Viscount Forbes, written from the City of Washington
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