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title: "Slavery Proverbs and Sayings"
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> [Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-hopkins/furthermore-the-slaves-cannot-be-put-into-a-more-wretched-situation/)

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

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> [“Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-k-asante/now-i-see-why-reading-was-illegal-for-black-people-during-slavery-i-2/)

[M.K. Asante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-k-asante/)

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> [American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/american-citizens-are-instrumental-in-carrying-on-a-traffic-in/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

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> [The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/the-slave-breeders-and-slave-traders-are-a-small-odious-and-detested/)

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

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> [With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamie-foxx/with-django-unchained-when-you-re-dealing-with-slavery-it-s-like-a/)

[Jamie Foxx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamie-foxx/)

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> [I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/i-was-broken-in-body-soul-and-spirit-my-natural-elasticity-was/)

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

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> [We still have slavery of all kinds - slavery of thought, slavery of ideas, slavery of cultureand I think 'Roots' exemplifies, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorne-greene/we-still-have-slavery-of-all-kinds-slavery-of-thought-slavery-of/)

[Lorne Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorne-greene/)

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> [I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-fraser/i-was-in-reality-bred-by-my-parents-as-my-father-s-concubine-what-we/)

[Sylvia Fraser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-fraser/)

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> [“I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/i-have-sometimes-thought-that-the-mere-hearing-of-those-songs-would/)

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

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> [“Off course, life has no point. If it had, man would not be free. He'd become a slave to that point and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrei-tarkovsky/off-course-life-has-no-point-if-it-had-man-would-not-be-free-he-d/)

[Andrei Tarkovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrei-tarkovsky/)

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> [“The mind has its needs, just as the body does. The latter are the foundations of society; from the former emerge the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-jacques-rousseau-2/the-mind-has-its-needs-just-as-the-body-does-the-latter-are-the/)

[Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-jacques-rousseau-2/)

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> [“It's owed to us through immunities of our individualities but we're deceived and become surety. Sure to be if we grow in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-r-coronado/it-s-owed-to-us-through-immunities-of-our-individualities-but-we-re/)

[Jose R. Coronado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-r-coronado/)

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> [“Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bangambiki-habyarimana/those-who-would-give-us-equal-opportunity-for-everybody-are/)

[Bangambiki Habyarimana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bangambiki-habyarimana/)

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> [If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/if-emancipation-of-the-working-classes-requires-their-fraternal/)

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

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> [“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garylfrancione/if-we-take-the-position-that-an-assessment-that-veganism-is-morally/)

[GaryLFrancione](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garylfrancione/)

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> [The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melissa-harris-perry/the-land-on-which-they-the-founding-fathers-formed-this-union-was/)

[Melissa Harris-Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melissa-harris-perry/)

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> [My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/my-great-and-exceeding-joy-over-these-stupendous-achievements/)

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

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> [“Two hundred years ago when slavery was going on it was illegal to educate a slave, particularly to teach them to read.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-carson/two-hundred-years-ago-when-slavery-was-going-on-it-was-illegal-to/)

[Ben Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-carson/)

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> [The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chinua-achebe/the-last-four-or-five-hundred-years-of-european-contact-with-africa/)

[Chinua Achebe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chinua-achebe/)

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> [Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/slavery-results-from-laws-laws-are-made-by-governments-and-therefore/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booker-t-washington/in-any-country-regardless-of-what-its-laws-say-wherever-people-act/)

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

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> [Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/pretension-may-sit-still-but-cannot-act-pretension-never-feigned-an/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/oh-yes-you-virginians-shed-barrels-of-perspiration-while-standing-off/)

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

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> [Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-renault/tell-a-man-what-he-may-not-sing-and-he-is-still-half-free-even-all/)

[Mary Renault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-renault/)

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> [No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-gregory/no-self-respecting-person-who-loves-humanity-or-wishes-for-a-world-of/)

[Anthony Gregory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-gregory/)

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> [A slave's life is mostly composed of patience and study. Yes, study. If not with actual books, then following the example of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-antoniou/a-slave-s-life-is-mostly-composed-of-patience-and-study-yes-study-if/)

[Laura Antoniou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-antoniou/)

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> [“World War 2 is the ultimate geopolitical smoke screen, fed to the livestock religiously, with Hitler as the moral decoy, so that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/world-war-2-is-the-ultimate-geopolitical-smoke-screen-fed-to-the/)

[Abhijit Naskar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abhijit-naskar/)

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> [The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-right-of-voting-for-representatives-is-the-primary-right-by-which/)

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

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> [In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/june-jordan/in-america-you-can-segregate-the-people-but-the-problems-will-travel/)

[June Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/june-jordan/)

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> [Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-abelard/our-redemption-through-the-suffering-of-christ-is-that-deeper-love/)

[Peter Abelard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-abelard/)

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> [By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-lowery/by-reserving-the-penalty-of-death-for-black-defendants-or-for-the/)

[Joseph Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-lowery/)

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> [Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/today-as-always-men-fall-into-two-groups-slaves-and-free-men-whoever/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-corbyn/other-human-rights-atrocities-from-african-slavery-to-the-killing/)

[Jeremy Corbyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-corbyn/)

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> [“A simple proof that they are a kind of robot: if the era and civilization they live in worshipped "ugliness," they too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sov8840/a-simple-proof-that-they-are-a-kind-of-robot-if-the-era-and/)

[Sov8840](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sov8840/)

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> [I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-am-naturally-anti-slavery-if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong-2/)

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

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> [For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jurnee-smollett/for-me-seeing-our-history-told-in-this-light-the-ones-who-did-rebel/)

[Jurnee Smollett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jurnee-smollett/)

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> [In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-foner/in-the-shadow-of-slavery-covers-two-and-a-half-centuries-of-black/)

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

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> [Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/oh-black-known-and-unknown-poets-how-often-have-your-auctioned-pains/)

[Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/)

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> [Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/most-of-the-people-who-come-into-slavery-today-the-people-who-enter/)

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

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> [As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulysses-s-grant/as-soon-as-slavery-fired-upon-the-flag-it-was-felt-we-all-felt-even/)

[Ulysses S. Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulysses-s-grant/)

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                        "text": "“Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about…Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to.”",
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                        "text": "American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil.",
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                        "text": "The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.",
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                        "text": "I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!",
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                        "text": "We still have slavery of all kinds - slavery of thought, slavery of ideas, slavery of cultureand I think 'Roots' exemplifies, in a very strong way, man's need to think for himself, feel for himself, do for himself.",
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                        "text": "I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.",
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                        "text": "“I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do. I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle; so that I neither saw nor heard as those without might see and hear. They told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with bitterest anguish. Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit, and filled me with ineffable sadness. I have frequently found myself in tears while hearing them. The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek. To those songs I trace my first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing character of slavery. I can never get rid of that conception. Those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery, and quicken my sympathies for my brethren in bonds. If any one wishes to be impressed with the soul-killing effects of slavery, let him go to Colonel Lloyd's plantation, and, on allowance-day, place himself in the deep pine woods, and there let him, in silence, analyze the sounds that shall pass through the chambers of his soul, - and if he is not thus impressed, it will only be because \"there is no flesh in his obdurate heart.\" I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. It is impossible to conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears. At least, such is my experience. I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.”",
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                        "text": "“Off course, life has no point. If it had, man would not be free. He'd become a slave to that point and his life would be governed by completely new criteria: the criteria of slavery. Like an animal, the point of whose life is that life itself, the continuation of the species. An animal carries out his slavish activities because it can feel the point of its life instinctively. Therefore its sphere is restricted. Man, on the other hand claims to aspire to the absolute.”",
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                        "text": "“It's owed to us through immunities of our individualities but we're deceived and become surety. Sure to be if we grow in knowledge, we can charge it back to the treasury & be master of who we truly are to be. Contrast between phantoms & the contract killas, contradicting what's meant to be free. Commercial warfare but money can't release you from the bind; only spiritual knowledge from God which is enlightened through the mind.”",
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                        "text": "“Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They pay lip service to it, they act by half measures and do everything to violate the laws they have themselves instituted to make sure the high class is always high. It never changes, it always goes in a circle, when the oppressed fight and get to the top, and they become the new elite and forget the promises.”",
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                        "text": "If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic.",
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