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> [“The present struggle between the South and North is, therefore, nothing but a struggle between two social systems, the system of slavery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-present-struggle-between-the-south-and-north-is-therefore-nothing/)

[Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/)

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> [The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-rediker/the-success-of-the-abolitionist-movement-lay-in-its-making-real-for/)

Marcus Rediker

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> [I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-zirin/i-mean-let-s-face-it-we-didn-t-have-slavery-in-this-country-for-over/)

[Dave Zirin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-zirin/)

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> [I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mildred-d-taylor/i-learned-a-history-not-then-written-in-books-but-one-passed-from/)

[Mildred D. Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mildred-d-taylor/)

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> [Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/even-if-the-constitution-of-the-united-states-had-intended-to/)

[Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/)

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> [Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lupita-nyong-o/slavery-is-something-that-is-all-too-often-swept-under-the-carpet-the/)

[Lupita Nyong'o](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lupita-nyong-o/)

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> [Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-cloud/marriage-is-not-slavery-it-is-based-on-a-love-relationship-deeply/)

[Henry Cloud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-cloud/)

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> [All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-johnson/all-my-life-i-believed-i-became-an-athlete-through-my-own-2/)

[Michael Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-johnson/)

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> [“So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/upton-sinclair/so-long-as-we-have-wage-slavery-answered-schliemann-it-matters-not-in/)

[Upton Sinclair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/upton-sinclair/)

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> [Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-keckley/poor-dusky-children-of-slavery-men-and-women-of-my-own-race-the/)

[Elizabeth Keckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-keckley/)

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> [And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sojourner-truth/and-ain-t-i-a-woman-look-at-me-look-at-my-arm-i-have-ploughed-and/)

[Sojourner Truth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sojourner-truth/)

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> [“The Matrix can feel like a pretty hopeless place. I get that. Nobody in his or her right mind (a tiny minority,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-luckman/the-matrix-can-feel-like-a-pretty-hopeless-place-i-get-that-nobody-in/)

[Sol Luckman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-luckman/)

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> [“The tightly intertwined stories of the white working class and black Americans go back to the prehistory of the United States—and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ta-nehisi-coates/the-tightly-intertwined-stories-of-the-white-working-class-and-black/)

[Ta-Nehisi Coates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ta-nehisi-coates/)

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> [It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/it-was-necessary-to-put-the-south-at-a-moral-disadvantage-by/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

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> [Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-tullius-cicero/now-in-regard-to-trades-and-other-means-of-livelihood-which-ones-are/)

[Marcus Tullius Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-tullius-cicero/)

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> [“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/slavery-is-such-an-atrocious-debasement-of-human-nature-that-its-very-2/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jefferson-davis/if-slavery-be-a-sin-it-is-not-yours-it-does-not-rest-on-your-action/)

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

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> [And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/and-we-must-beg-homer-and-the-other-poets-not-to-be-angry-if-we/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/when-you-look-at-a-corporation-just-like-when-you-look-at-a-slave/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/some-few-i-am-one-even-wish-to-god-though-at-the-loss-of-millions-of/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

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> [“I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-a-jacobs/i-spent-the-day-gathering-flowers-and-weaving-them-into-festoons/)

Harriet A. Jacobs

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> [I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-can-not-but-hate-the-prospect-of-slavery-s-expansion-i-hate-it/)

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

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> [It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matilda-joslyn-gage/it-has-not-been-without-bitter-resistance-by-the-clergy-that-woman-s/)

[Matilda Joslyn Gage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matilda-joslyn-gage/)

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> [The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/the-flow-of-people-into-the-united-states-into-slavery-it-follows-the/)

[Kevin Bales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-bales/)

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> [To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-h-seward/to-reduce-this-claim-of-slavery-to-an-absurdity-it-is-only-necessary/)

[William H. Seward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-h-seward/)

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> [When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-latimer-felton/when-white-men-were-willing-to-put-their-own-offspring-in-the-kitchen/)

Rebecca Latimer Felton

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> [“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/if-by-the-mere-force-of-numbers-a-majority-should-deprive-a-minority/)

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

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> [Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tacitus/augustus-gradually-increased-his-powers-taking-over-those-of-the/)

[Tacitus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tacitus/)

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> [Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-mayhew/not-to-discontinue-our-allegiance-in-this-case-would-be-to-join-with/)

[Jonathan Mayhew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-mayhew/)

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> [Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-barker/look-at-the-posture-of-prayer-it-is-the-posture-of-slavery-of-bowing/)

[Dan Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-barker/)

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> [The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-shelby-spong/the-bible-belt-the-religious-south-is-the-section-of-the-country-that/)

[John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-shelby-spong/)

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> [The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-pournelle/the-difference-between-libertarian-and-conservative-is-that/)

[Jerry Pournelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-pournelle/)

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> [You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-blake/you-cannot-have-liberty-in-this-world-without-what-you-call-moral/)

[William Blake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-blake/)

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> [In the era of slavery, you could be a so-called Afro-Cuban one day and a so-called Black American the next day, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-horne/in-the-era-of-slavery-you-could-be-a-so-called-afro-cuban-one-day-and/)

[Gerald Horne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-horne/)

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> [From their resilience through the brutalities of slavery to the ongoing fight for equity, African Americans have played a critical role as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-n-green/from-their-resilience-through-the-brutalities-of-slavery-to-the/)

[Al N. Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-n-green/)

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> [I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/culbert-olson/i-wouldn-t-say-that-religion-has-promoted-the-social-progress-of/)

Culbert Olson

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> [“You may get me to say the word, but know this, you will never truly own me. That right belongs to my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kitty-thomas/you-may-get-me-to-say-the-word-but-know-this-you-will-never-truly-own/)

[Kitty Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kitty-thomas/)

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> [These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins/these-scriptures-therefore-are-infinitely-far-from-justifying-the/)

[Samuel Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-hopkins/)

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> [“America's 1st Arab spring came in the guise of the Civil War...when our nation couldn't stomach the abomination of slavery anymore. One…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-pina/america-s-1st-arab-spring-came-in-the-guise-of-the-civil-war-when-our/)

[Timothy Pina](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-pina/)

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> [The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayaan-hirsi-ali/the-liberal-psyche-wants-to-protect-minorities-to-apologize-for/)

[Ayaan Hirsi Ali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayaan-hirsi-ali/)

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                        "text": "Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden.",
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                        "text": "Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.",
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                        "text": "All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations. Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.",
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                        "text": "“So long as we have wage slavery,\" answered Schliemann, \"it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may be, it is easy to find people to perform it. But just as soon as labor is set free, then the price of such work will begin to rise. So one by one the old, dingy, and unsanitary factories will come down— it will be cheaper to build new; and so the steamships will be provided with stoking machinery , and so the dangerous trades will be made safe, or substitutes will be found for their products. In exactly the same way, as the citizens of our Industrial Republic become refined, year by year the cost of slaughterhouse products will increase; until eventually those who want to eat meat will have to do their own killing— and how long do you think the custom would survive then?— To go on to another item— one of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption; and one of the consequences of civic administration by ignorant and vicious politicians, is that preventable diseases kill off half our population. And even if science were allowed to try, it could do little, because the majority of human beings are not yet human beings at all, but simply machines for the creating of wealth for others. They are penned up in filthy houses and left to rot and stew in misery, and the conditions of their life make them ill faster than all the doctors in the world could heal them; and so, of course, they remain as centers of contagion , poisoning the lives of all of us, and making happiness impossible for even the most selfish. For this reason I would seriously maintain that all the medical and surgical discoveries that science can make in the future will be of less importance than the application of the knowledge we already possess, when the disinherited of the earth have established their right to a human existence.”",
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                        "text": "Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you! The bright dreams were too rudely dispelled; you were not prepared for the new life that opened before you, and the great masses of the North learned to look upon your helplessness with indifference-learned to speak of you as an idle, dependent race. Reason should have prompted kinder thoughts. Charity is ever kind.",
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                        "text": "And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?",
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                        "text": "“The Matrix can feel like a pretty hopeless place. I get that. Nobody in his or her right mind (a tiny minority, admittedly) wants to be caught in an endless digital labyrinth like a techno lab rat. My position is that, on at least a subliminal level, even many of the most benighted sheeple (the really stubborn ones I think of as the ‘consciously clueless’) secretly suspect that they’re corralled in a system designed to control them, to keep them in check. But I’m here to tell you it doesn’t have to be this way. We have the power to change our circumstances individually and maybe, just maybe, collectively.”",
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                        "text": "“The tightly intertwined stories of the white working class and black Americans go back to the prehistory of the United States—and the use of one as a cudgel to silence the claims of the other goes back nearly as long. Like the black working class, the white working class originates in bondage—the former in the lifelong bondage of slavery, the latter in the temporary bondage of indenture. In their early seventeenth-century primordial state, these two classes were remarkably, though not totally, free of racist enmity. But by the eighteenth century the country’s master class had begun etching race into law while phasing out indentured servitude in favor of a more enduring labor solution. From these and other changes of law and economy, a bargain emerged—the descendants of indenture would enjoy the full benefits of whiteness, the most definitional benefit being that they would never sink to the level of the slave.”",
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                        "text": "It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.",
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                        "text": "Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.",
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