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title: "Inspiring Slavery Wisdom"
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> [The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-savage/the-bible-is-a-radically-pro-slavery-document-slave-owners-waved/)

[Dan Savage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-savage/)

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> [Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juana-in-s-de-la-cruz/must-i-dwell-in-slavery-s-night-and-all-pleasure-take-its-flight-far/)

[Juana Inés de la Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juana-in-s-de-la-cruz/)

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> [Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/slavery-is-founded-in-the-selfishness-of-man-s-nature-oppositi-on-to/)

[Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/)

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> [The evil of slavery and colonialism was that these oppressions kept their victims out of history, disconnected them from the evolutionary struggle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shelby-steele/the-evil-of-slavery-and-colonialism-was-that-these-oppressions-kept/)

[Shelby Steele](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shelby-steele/)

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> [Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-wilson/claims-like-slavery-is-wrong-are-not-fully-common-sensical-so-they/)

[Catherine Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-wilson/)

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> [So when the slaves got back from the fields, they was too tired to revolt against they masters. So what we're sayin'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soulja-boy/so-when-the-slaves-got-back-from-the-fields-they-was-too-tired-to/)

[Soulja Boy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soulja-boy/)

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> [We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ava-duvernay/we-re-living-based-on-laws-and-ideas-that-we-as-a-society-embraced/)

[Ava DuVernay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ava-duvernay/)

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> [“Both animal and human slaves could be controlled best if kept economically and psychically dependent on their owners.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/both-animal-and-human-slaves-could-be-controlled-best-if-kept/)

[David Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-christian/)

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> [By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-wycliffe/by-the-law-of-christ-every-man-is-bound-to-love-his-neighbour-as/)

[John Wycliffe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-wycliffe/)

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> [ A mutual friend, Benjamin Rush, brought \[Tomas Jefferson and John Adams\] together in 1812, and they went on to exchange letters for… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-s-wood/a-mutual-friend-benjamin-rush-brought-tomas-jefferson-and-john-adams/)

[Gordon S. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-s-wood/)

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> [Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/looking-at-the-world-as-a-whole-the-drift-for-many-decades-has-been/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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> [Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/now-take-the-constitution-according-to-its-plain-reading-and-i-defy/)

[Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/)

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> [Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/liberals-have-been-driven-to-the-desperate-expedient-of-attributing/)

[Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/)

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> [Slavery was a web of relationships, and if people knew how thick the whole business was, they would not make fun of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-mcbride/slavery-was-a-web-of-relationships-and-if-people-knew-how-thick-the/)

[James McBride](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-mcbride/)

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> [If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-edward-griffin/if-lincoln-s-primary-goal-in-the-war-was-not-the-abolition-of-slavery/)

[G. Edward Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-edward-griffin/)

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> [ In \[India\] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sunitha-krishnan/in-india-and-across-the-globe-hundreds-and-thousands-of-children-as/)

[Sunitha Krishnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sunitha-krishnan/)

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> [Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/over-the-centuries-we-ve-moved-on-from-scripture-to-accumulate/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-rifkin/a-half-century-from-now-our-grandchildren-are-likely-to-look-back-at/)

[Jeremy Rifkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-rifkin/)

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> [“Up to now, I have never served nor become a messenger for any foreign power or interest. I am an enemy to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woldeab-woldemariam/up-to-now-i-have-never-served-nor-become-a-messenger-for-any-foreign/)

[Woldeab Woldemariam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woldeab-woldemariam/)

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> [“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-ash/honey-it-isn-t-democracy-that-runs-this-country-capitalism-rules-it/)

[Jerry Ash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-ash/)

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> [May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-maria-morelos-y-pav-njose-maria-morelos-y-pav-n/may-slavery-be-banished-forever-together-with-the-distinction-between/)

[Jose Maria Morelos Y PavónJose Maria Morelos Y Pavón](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-maria-morelos-y-pav-njose-maria-morelos-y-pav-n/)

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> [No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/no-until-i-want-the-protection-of-massachusetts-to-be-extended-to-me/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/the-purpose-of-sabbath-is-not-simply-to-rejuvenate-yourself-in-order/)

[Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/)

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> [As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/as-for-those-who-think-the-arab-world-promises-freedom-the-briefest/)

[Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/)

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> [I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-oyelowo/i-know-that-there-is-still-a-lot-of-bitterness-and-anger-and-arguably/)

[David Oyelowo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-oyelowo/)

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> [Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hartley-coleridge/go-your-way-forget-prometheus-and-all-the-woe-that-he-is-doom-d-to/)

[Hartley Coleridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hartley-coleridge/)

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> [But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-edwards/but-when-you-see-personal-artifacts-relating-to-by-genealogy-at-least/)

[Bob Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-edwards/)

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> [The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/the-social-repression-and-ideological-repression-of-women-began-with/)

[Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/)

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> [ \[Puggles\] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" \[Glinda\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-maguire/puggles-what-population-signs-on-willingly-for-slavery-you-mean-other/)

[Gregory Maguire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-maguire/)

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> [Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/slavery-is-an-abomination-and-must-be-loudly-proclaimed-as-such-but-i/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [We need a foreign policy which responds to challenges like forced marriage, and which speaks to the particular needs of women and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-thornberry/we-need-a-foreign-policy-which-responds-to-challenges-like-forced/)

[Emily Thornberry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-thornberry/)

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> [Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/who-enslaves-another-s-manhood-with-weak-human-power-alone-lays-a/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

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> [“The ruthless engine of cotton required its fuel of African bodies. Crisscrossing the ocean, ships brought bodies to work the land and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colson-whitehead/the-ruthless-engine-of-cotton-required-its-fuel-of-african-bodies/)

[Colson Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colson-whitehead/)

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> [A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-norman/a-gorean-slave-girl-in-the-presence-of-a-free-man-or-woman-always/)

[John Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-norman/)

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> [“Slavery and serfdom, while not unknown in tribal societies, expand enormously under the aegis of states.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-fukuyama/slavery-and-serfdom-while-not-unknown-in-tribal-societies-expand/)

[Francis Fukuyama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-fukuyama/)

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> [If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jesse-jackson/if-you-don-t-feel-apologetic-for-slavery-if-you-don-t-feel-apologetic/)

[Jesse Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jesse-jackson/)

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> [In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wasif-ali-wasif/in-order-to-spend-out-our-time-life-we-sell-some-of-this-time-we-work/)

[Wasif Ali Wasif](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wasif-ali-wasif/)

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> [If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dryden/if-thou-dost-still-retain-the-same-ill-habits-the-same-follies-too/)

[John Dryden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dryden/)

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> [To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/to-believe-christianity-stands-in-opposition-to-slavery-is-at-best-to/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

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> [Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/slavery-is-now-no-where-more-patiently-endured-than-in-countries-once/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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                        "text": "May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice or virtue... In the new laws, may torture not be allowed. (Castillian Spanish: Que la esclavitud se proscriba para siempre y lo mismo la distinci�n de castas, quedando todos iguales, y s�lo distinguir� a un americano de otro el vicio y la virtudQue en la nueva legislaci�n no se admita la tortura.)",
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                        "text": "As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.",
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                        "text": "[Puggles] \"What population signs on willingly for slavery?\" \"You mean other than wives?\" [Glinda]",
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