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title: "Inspiring Slavery Proverbs"
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> [“From their arrival around 1619, African people had illegally resisted legal slavery. They had thus been stamped from the beginning as criminals. In”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ibram-x-kendi/from-their-arrival-around-1619-african-people-had-illegally-resisted/)

[Ibram X. Kendi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ibram-x-kendi/)

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> [“See this abdicated beast, once king Of them all, nibble his claws: Not anger enough left—no, nor despair— To break his teeth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-day-lewis/see-this-abdicated-beast-once-king-of-them-all-nibble-his-claws-not/)

[Cecil Day-Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-day-lewis/)

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> [The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-beecher-stowe/the-number-of-those-men-who-know-how-to-use-wholly-irresponsible/)

[Harriet Beecher Stowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-beecher-stowe/)

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> [I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yusef-komunyakaa/i-excavate-history-i-look-at-lives-buried-under-too-much-silence/)

[Yusef Komunyakaa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yusef-komunyakaa/)

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> [The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-c-calhoun/the-defence-of-human-liberty-against-the-aggressions-of-despotic/)

[John C. Calhoun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-c-calhoun/)

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> [An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/an-air-of-fashion-which-is-but-a-badge-of-slavery-proves-that-the/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/)

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> [Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... . Better to die than to live in slavery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmeline-pankhurst/better-that-we-should-die-fighting-than-be-outraged-and-dishonored/)

[Emmeline Pankhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmeline-pankhurst/)

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> [If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-stamp/if-you-want-to-remain-a-slave-to-the-banks-and-want-them-to-pay-the/)

[Josiah Stamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-stamp/)

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> [Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-francis-burton/of-the-gladdest-moments-in-human-life-methinks-is-the-departure-upon/)

[Richard Francis Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-francis-burton/)

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> [“Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/through-the-round-of-many-births-i-roamed-without-reward-without-rest/)

[Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/)

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> [For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marco-rubio/for-centuries-faith-has-helped-us-overcome-problems-and-helped-us/)

[Marco Rubio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marco-rubio/)

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> [We have far more options for black Americans to tell stories outside of slavery, but whenever it comes to slavery, it's an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldis-hodge/we-have-far-more-options-for-black-americans-to-tell-stories-outside/)

[Aldis Hodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldis-hodge/)

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> [You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-lincoln-rockwell/you-re-a-slave-in-your-own-country-white-man-each-year-you-get-to/)

[George Lincoln Rockwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-lincoln-rockwell/)

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> [As an African American woman and the descendant of slaves, I do not condone any form of racism or oppression. I most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phaedra-parks/as-an-african-american-woman-and-the-descendant-of-slaves-i-do-not/)

[Phaedra Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phaedra-parks/)

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> [Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-e-williams/legality-alone-is-no-guide-for-a-moral-people-there-are-many-things/)

[Walter E. Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-e-williams/)

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> [Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-c-k/every-year-white-people-add-100-years-to-how-long-ago-slavery-was-i/)

[Louis C. K](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-c-k/)

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> [I'm not a person that really deal in color. I recognize the inequities that certain cultures have to go through. I understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-brown/i-m-not-a-person-that-really-deal-in-color-i-recognize-the-inequities/)

[Jim Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-brown/)

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> [The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashley-montagu/the-parallel-between-antifeminism-and-race-prejudice-is-striking-the/)

[Ashley Montagu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashley-montagu/)

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> [“The influences and associations that had always surrounded him, blinded him to the inherent wrong at the bottom of the system of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/solomon-northup/the-influences-and-associations-that-had-always-surrounded-him/)

[Solomon Northup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/solomon-northup/)

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> [Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pogge/think-of-us-slavery-in-1850-or-the-subjection-of-women-both-of-these/)

[Thomas Pogge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pogge/)

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> [“What could be better for slave owners than slaves who think they’re free? This is the greatest trick ever pulled: a nation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-peate/what-could-be-better-for-slave-owners-than-slaves-who-think-they-re/)

[Robert Peate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-peate/)

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> [I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-do-not-wish-to-be-misunderstood-upon-this-subject-of-slavery-in/)

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

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> [We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-wilson/we-call-slavery-is-wrong-a-moral-truth-because-there-is-a-specific/)

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

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> [“Are you so simple as to assume that the Big Surrender banished the concept of human slavery from the earth? What is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zora-neale-hurston/are-you-so-simple-as-to-assume-that-the-big-surrender-banished-the/)

[Zora Neale Hurston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zora-neale-hurston/)

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> [“Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/language-can-never-pin-down-slavery-genocide-war-nor-should-it-yearn/)

[Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/)

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> [And verily for everything a slave loses there is a substitue,but the one who loses Allah wil never find anything to replace…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/islam/and-verily-for-everything-a-slave-loses-there-is-a-substitue-but-the/)

[Islam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/islam/)

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> [“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/de-philosopher-dj-kyos/our-endurance-and-suffering-made-us-stronger-than-they-can-imagine-we/)

[De philosopher DJ Kyos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/de-philosopher-dj-kyos/)

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> [Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-bailey-aldrich/slavery-in-new-hampshire-was-never-legally-abolished-unless-abraham/)

[Thomas Bailey Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-bailey-aldrich/)

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> [It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/it-sometimes-suits-the-slaveholders-to-claim-that-their-slavery-is-an/)

[Gerrit Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerrit-smith/)

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> [Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-warhol/being-born-is-like-being-kidnapped-and-then-sold-into-slavery-people/)

[Andy Warhol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-warhol/)

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> [Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/beshrew-that-heart-that-makes-my-heart-to-groan-for-that-deep-wound/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [“It is so, my dear Lucilius; there are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca/it-is-so-my-dear-lucilius-there-are-a-few-men-whom-slavery-holds-fast/)

[Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca/)

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> [I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haile-gerima/i-really-do-not-care-what-the-white-world-is-doing-i-care-about-black/)

[Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haile-gerima/)

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> [You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/you-may-be-exhausted-with-work-you-may-even-kill-yourself-but-unless/)

[Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/)

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> [African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jefferson-davis/african-slavery-as-it-exists-in-the-united-states-is-a-moral-a-social/)

[Jefferson Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jefferson-davis/)

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> [I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerrit-smith/i-need-say-no-more-to-prove-that-slavery-is-entirely-unlike-the/)

[Gerrit Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerrit-smith/)

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> [I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-otis/i-will-to-my-dying-day-oppose-with-all-the-powers-and-faculties-god/)

[James Otis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-otis/)

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> [The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-keyes/the-travesty-of-slavery-wasn-t-physical-abuse-it-was-the-moral-abuse/)

[Alan Keyes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-keyes/)

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> [If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/if-as-a-member-of-a-slave-nation-i-could-deliver-the-suppressed/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-marley/emancipate-yourself-from-mental-slavery-none-but-ourselves-can-free/)

[Bob Marley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-marley/)

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                        "text": "For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.",
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                        "text": "We have far more options for black Americans to tell stories outside of slavery, but whenever it comes to slavery, it's an uncomfortable subject. Why? Because it's the most unresolved subject in American history.",
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                        "text": "You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.",
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                        "text": "Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400 years ago.' No it very wasn't. It was 140 years ago...that's two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That's how recently you could buy a guy.",
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                        "text": "I'm not a person that really deal in color. I recognize the inequities that certain cultures have to go through. I understand the history of slavery and all those things. But I'm not a victim. I can vote, I can participant. I can invest my money. I can invest my time. And that's what I'm doing. I'm not working for anybody. I'm not making any money doing what I'm doing. I'm doing it because someone did it for me.",
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                        "text": "The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.",
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                        "text": "“The influences and associations that had always surrounded him, blinded him to the inherent wrong at the bottom of the system of Slavery. He never doubted the moral right of one man holding another in subjection. Looking through the same medium with his fathers before him, he saw things in the same light. Brought up under other circumstances and other influences, his notions would undoubtedly have been different. Nevertheless, he was a model master, walking uprightly, according to the light of his understanding, and fortunate was the slave who came to his possession.”",
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                        "text": "Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! - defended by pointing out, quite correctly, that this situation of slaves and women had been improving throughout the preceding century. Slaves, in particular, were worked less hard, beaten and raped less frequently, better fed, and less often ripped apart from their families. So would a celebration of moral progress have been appropriate in 1850? Surely not. Slavery could have been and should have been abolished - then, if not before.",
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                        "text": "“What could be better for slave owners than slaves who think they’re free? This is the greatest trick ever pulled: a nation of slaves who think they’re free. Slaves must be fed, housed, even clothed. But if they must feed, house, and clothe themselves as ‘payment’ for their work, this removes burden from the slave owner—while the same work is performed and accomplished, to the benefit of the slave owner. The best part is that slaves who think they’re free will never work to end their slavery. They will look down on those who do not work. To work to end their slavery, they must first learn they are slaves. This is the hardest task of all: to free their minds.”",
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                        "text": "I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.",
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                        "text": "We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of slavery. We discussed it for centuries in metaphysical, economic, biological, and philosophical terms; we listened to all the arguments pro and con, we read all the testimonies of slaves and witnesses, and we decided. Though this 'we\" is not everybody on earth, or even most people, who've never thought about slavery much.",
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                        "text": "“Are you so simple as to assume that the Big Surrender banished the concept of human slavery from the earth? What is the principle of slavery? Only the literal buying and selling of human flesh on the block? That was only an outside symbol. Real slavery is couched in the desire and the efforts of any man or community to live and advance their interests at the expense of the lives and interests of others. All of the outward signs come out of that.”",
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                        "text": "“Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.”",
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                        "text": "And verily for everything a slave loses there is a substitue,but the one who loses Allah wil never find anything to replace him",
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                        "text": "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.",
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                        "text": "Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?",
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