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title: "Slavery Lines and Sayings"
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> [From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booker-t-washington/from-some-things-that-i-have-said-one-may-get-the-idea-that-some-of/)

[Booker T. Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booker-t-washington/)

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> [I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tabarrok/i-utterly-reject-the-view-that-the-third-world-is-doomed-to-poverty/)

[Alex Tabarrok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tabarrok/)

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> [Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-wright/too-often-a-story-is-examined-through-biased-eyes-without-a/)

[Jeffrey Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-wright/)

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> [The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lloyd-george/the-bolshevists-would-blow-up-the-fabric-with-high-explosive-with/)

[David Lloyd George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lloyd-george/)

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> [They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldis-hodge/they-don-t-really-focus-on-that-history-here-in-america-i-remember/)

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

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> [Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-c-k/black-people-have-slavery-and-white-people-have-our-own-thing-stuff/)

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

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> [“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-have-no-purpose-directly-or-indirectly-to-interfere-with-the/)

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

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> [The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcie-cohen-ferris/the-core-cuisine-of-southern-food-is-established-in-the-plantation/)

[Marcie Cohen Ferris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcie-cohen-ferris/)

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> [“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annette-gordon-reed/american-slavery-at-its-beginnings-obscure-distant-and-tragic-is/)

[Annette Gordon-Reed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annette-gordon-reed/)

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> [Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/heaven-knows-how-to-put-a-proper-price-upon-its-goods-it-would-be/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [“The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-black/the-problem-with-working-i-mean-not-self-employed-is-that-you-have-to/)

[Robert Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-black/)

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> [“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aberjhani/added-to-the-shock-of-the-routine-violation-of-their-bodies-was-the/)

[Aberjhani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aberjhani/)

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> [The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/the-loss-of-seriousness-seems-to-me-to-be-in-effect-a-loss-of-hope-i/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

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> [Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-edgar-wideman/books-are-an-attempt-to-control-something-that-s-uncontrollable-that/)

[John Edgar Wideman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-edgar-wideman/)

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> [It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/it-was-that-period-in-the-vernal-quarter-when-we-may-suppose-the/)

[Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/)

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> [Half the country seceded from the other half when Abraham Lincoln was elected because half the country couldn't abide his position on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-erickson/half-the-country-seceded-from-the-other-half-when-abraham-lincoln-was/)

[Steve Erickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-erickson/)

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> [When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/when-everything-is-subject-to-money-then-the-scarcity-of-money-makes/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

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> [Whatever Lincoln's racial views, which are not totally modern and egalitarian in many ways, he believes blacks should have this natural right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-foner/whatever-lincoln-s-racial-views-which-are-not-totally-modern-and/)

[Eric Foner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-foner/)

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> [I is a great prison. It is your slavery and bondage to the mind. The moment you enter beyond the mind, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/i-is-a-great-prison-it-is-your-slavery-and-bondage-to-the-mind-the/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/gilbert-darling-don-t-let-s-ever-be-afraid-of-things-it-s-such-2/)

[Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/)

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> [I think many Dutch just don't know the history of Black Pete, that he is rooted in slavery, and how he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-ross-williams/i-think-many-dutch-just-don-t-know-the-history-of-black-pete-that-he/)

[Roger Ross Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-ross-williams/)

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> [The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moore/the-wealthy-have-never-liked-to-pay-for-the-labor-that-enriches-them/)

[Michael Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moore/)

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> [The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-edward-hartpole-lecky/the-unweary-unostentatious-and-inglorious-crusade-of-england-against/)

[William Edward Hartpole Lecky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-edward-hartpole-lecky/)

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> [Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/every-artist-every-scientist-every-writer-must-decide-now-where-he/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

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> [There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/there-is-an-old-joke-about-socialism-as-the-synthesis-of-the-highest/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

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> [The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-dworkin/the-genius-of-any-slave-system-is-found-in-the-dynamics-which-isolate/)

[Andrea Dworkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-dworkin/)

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> [If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliza-griswold/if-we-were-to-see-western-landay-poems-we-d-see-them-out-of/)

[Eliza Griswold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliza-griswold/)

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> [My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jefferson-davis/my-own-convictions-as-to-negro-slavery-are-strong-it-has-its-evils/)

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

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> [We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-can-constitutionally-extirpate-slavery-at-this-time-but-if-we-fail/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,—they are condemned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-beecher-stowe/one-should-have-expected-some-terrible-enormities-charged-to-those/)

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

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> [There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charley-reese/there-s-no-dishonor-in-being-forced-by-a-superior-power-into-slavery/)

[Charley Reese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charley-reese/)

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> [I say, then, that viewed from that standpoint, there is but one single subject of complaint which Virginia has to make against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-brown-baldwin/i-say-then-that-viewed-from-that-standpoint-there-is-but-one-single/)

[John Brown Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-brown-baldwin/)

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> [“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angie-thomas/daddy-once-told-me-there-s-a-rage-passed-down-to-every-black-man-from/)

[Angie Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angie-thomas/)

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> [Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elbert-hubbard/organized-religion-being-founded-on-superstition-is-perforce-not/)

[Elbert Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elbert-hubbard/)

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> [The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madalyn-murray-o-hair/the-atheist-realizes-that-there-must-not-only-be-an-acceptance-of-his/)

[Madalyn Murray O'Hair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madalyn-murray-o-hair/)

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> [Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/femi-kuti/before-slavery-africa-had-a-culture-we-had-medicine-and-our-cure-for/)

[Femi Kuti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/femi-kuti/)

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> [We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-beecher-stowe/we-hear-often-of-the-distress-of-the-negro-servants-on-the-loss-of-a/)

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

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> [When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ta-nehisi-coates/when-i-see-the-confederate-flag-i-see-the-attempt-to-raise-an-empire/)

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

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> [Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucretius/long-time-men-lay-oppress-d-with-slavish-fear-religion-s-tyranny-did/)

[Lucretius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucretius/)

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> [“...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/a-vision-from-a-universe-where-the-equal-rights-amendment-with-its/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

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                        "text": "I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?",
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                        "text": "The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.",
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                        "text": "They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a very, very small section in the history books. It's not something they really touch on directly with American curriculums.",
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                        "text": "Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope with. Like when they took our slaves away. That was really hard for us. So it's pretty even.",
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                        "text": "The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table, we must understand the relationship of enslaved people to Africa, to historical trauma, and their central role in food production. Their voice is the most poignant, expressive voice in Southern cuisine.",
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                        "text": "“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery and political founding of the American nation. If you like your history heroic—and many people seem to—the story of slavery in the early American period is simply not the place to go looking for heroes, at least not among the”",
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                        "text": "Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to tax) but \"to bind us in all cases whatsoever,\" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious, for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.",
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                        "text": "“The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do not want to do, plus you get talked down to, ordered around by twats, you know you are better than. In reality, you are no better than a slave, no better than a hamster running on a wheel. You could say the hamster likes to run on the wheel, the hamster runs on the wheel by choice. But do not forget, the hamster is always in a cage, and will never be anything else, but a hamster running on a wheel inside a cage, unless it escapes the cage.”",
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                        "text": "“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiritual abuse of black women--with its inevitable result being the destruction of the traditional African family--the highest crime committed by slave-holders and the one thing for which he said he could not forgive them.”",
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                        "text": "The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made people rise to real ambition, real gravity was the sense of posterity, for example - a word that I can remember hearing quite often when I was a child and I never hear anymore. People actually wanted to make the world good for people in generations that they would never see. It makes people think in very large terms to try to liberate women, for example, or to try to eliminate slavery.",
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                        "text": "Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It literally destroyed millions, but it didn't destroy the inner lives of all the people who experienced it. There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally. If I had only a negative side of things to present, I think I would have much less of a drive to do it. Because what would be the point?",
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                        "text": "It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.",
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