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> [We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/we-inherited-these-principles-and-these-freedoms-and-we-here-highly/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-webb/most-southern-soldiers-viewed-the-driving-issue-to-be-sovereignty/)

[Jim Webb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-webb/)

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> [Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/germaine-greer/now-as-before-women-must-refuse-to-be-meek-and-guileful-for-truth/)

[Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/germaine-greer/)

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> [There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/there-is-no-such-thing-as-freedom-though-it-is-the-most-important/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

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> [We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/we-must-become-free-we-are-free-the-work-is-to-know-it-we-must-give/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

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> [No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-livingston/no-nation-ever-yet-found-any-inconvenience-from-too-close-an/)

[Edward Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-livingston/)

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> [Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/either-the-opponents-of-slavery-will-arrest-the-further-spread-of-it/)

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

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> [It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/it-is-seldom-that-liberty-of-any-kind-is-lost-all-at-once-slavery-has/)

[David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/)

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> [One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/one-of-the-monstrous-things-that-slavery-in-this-country-caused-was/)

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

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> [Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-cavendish-duchess-of-devonshire/deborah-duchess-of-devonshire-recounts-her-decision-to-leave-her/)

[Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-cavendish-duchess-of-devonshire/)

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> [“The slavery debate alerts us to self-justifying tendencies at work in how we use the Bible. Whenever our interpretation leads to injustice,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mathews/the-slavery-debate-alerts-us-to-self-justifying-tendencies-at-work-in/)

[Alice Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mathews/)

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> [I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/i-actually-believe-that-some-residue-of-discrimination-would-lessen/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-henry/is-it-not-amazing-that-at-a-time-when-the-rights-of-humanity-are/)

[Patrick Henry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-henry/)

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> [In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/in-history-she-wasn-t-there-while-we-reenacted-the-lincoln-douglas/)

[Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/)

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> [From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-e-b-du-bois/from-the-day-of-its-birth-the-anomaly-of-slavery-plagued-a-nation/)

[W. E. B. Du Bois](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-e-b-du-bois/)

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> [We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-akinola/we-in-africa-are-always-on-the-receiving-end-we-have-had-human/)

[Peter Akinola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-akinola/)

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> [In China, the rich enslaved the poor, and in England and Scotland and all over the world, one person, through his power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorne-greene/in-china-the-rich-enslaved-the-poor-and-in-england-and-scotland-and/)

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

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> [My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-baker/my-people-have-a-country-of-their-own-to-go-to-if-they-choose-africa/)

[Josephine Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-baker/)

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> [“It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thornton-wilder/it-is-difficult-my-dear-lucius-to-escape-becoming-the-person-others/)

[Thornton Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thornton-wilder/)

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> [History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-trotsky/history-has-different-yardsticks-for-the-cruelty-of-the-northerners/)

[Leon Trotsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-trotsky/)

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> [“And, since I had learned that whites were once enslaved as generally as any other race, how did it come about that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chancellor-williams/and-since-i-had-learned-that-whites-were-once-enslaved-as-generally/)

[Chancellor Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chancellor-williams/)

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> [“Rendering moral judgements in retrospect can be hazardous. It is unfair to judge the past by the standards of the present. Yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/rendering-moral-judgements-in-retrospect-can-be-hazardous-it-is/)

[Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/)

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> [Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-perlstein/look-at-liberty-s-greatest-historic-advances-ending-slavery-giving/)

[Rick Perlstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-perlstein/)

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> [If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wynton-marsalis/if-you-didn-t-have-the-amalgam-of-blacks-and-african-type-sensibility/)

[Wynton Marsalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wynton-marsalis/)

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> [Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mercedes-lackey/evil-working-in-subtler-fashion-marriages-that-proved-to-be-no-more/)

[Mercedes Lackey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mercedes-lackey/)

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> [ \[T\]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington/t-he-hour-is-fast-approaching-on-which-the-honor-and-success-of-this/)

[George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington/)

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> [“History, I always think, is our reality check. And understanding it in places like Liverpool's International Slavery Museum is an essential part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/history-i-always-think-is-our-reality-check-and-understanding-it-in/)

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

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> [Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-ross-williams/zwarte-piet-or-black-pete-is-a-relic-from-slavery-it-is-something/)

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

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> [Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/feudalism-serfdom-slavery-all-tyrannical-institutions-are-merely-the/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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> [Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-c-guelzo/abraham-lincoln-would-have-been-happy-to-have-solved-the-slavery/)

[Allen C. Guelzo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-c-guelzo/)

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> [Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington/your-late-purchase-of-an-estate-in-the-colony-of-cayenne-with-a-view/)

[George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington/)

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> [ I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho\[ugh\] popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rumbold/i-may-say-this-is-a-deluded-generation-veiled-with-ignorance-that-tho/)

[Richard Rumbold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rumbold/)

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> [“Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/crimethinc/because-i-care-about-human-beings-i-want-them-to-be-free-to-do-what/)

[CrimethInc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/crimethinc/)

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> [I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/i-tremble-for-my-country-when-i-reflect-that-god-is-just-that-his-2/)

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

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> [I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-forrest/i-really-do-think-i-can-make-a-contribution-in-helping-eliminate-the/)

[Andrew Forrest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-forrest/)

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> [“Freedom's never been free, there's always been a price to be paid, but people have forgotten; they're handing their freedom, their lives,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-fields/freedom-s-never-been-free-there-s-always-been-a-price-to-be-paid-but/)

[L.M. Fields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-fields/)

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> [I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-joseph-proudhon/i-build-no-system-i-ask-an-end-to-privilege-the-abolition-of-slavery/)

[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-joseph-proudhon/)

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> [I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/i-ve-been-reading-about-and-writing-about-the-civil-war-period-and-it/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

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> [More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/more-generally-independent-farmers-had-to-be-trained-to-become-docile/)

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

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> [In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-d-kristof/in-the-nineteenth-century-the-central-moral-challenge-was-slavery-in/)

[Nicholas D. Kristof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-d-kristof/)

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                        "text": "Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he wrote to her: \"The miracle occurred; I realized that in addition to all the suffering I had caused, I was not my own master. I decided this slavery must stop once and for all.\" And it did.",
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                        "text": "“The slavery debate alerts us to self-justifying tendencies at work in how we use the Bible. Whenever our interpretation leads to injustice, oppression, or structural violence, then the very heart of the Bible is repudiated. Such views are anti-biblical, no matter what texts they cite.”",
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                        "text": "Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at the forefront of advancing those reforms - often putting their lives on the line - called themselves liberals.",
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                        "text": "Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.",
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                        "text": "[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.",
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                        "text": "“History, I always think, is our reality check. And understanding it in places like Liverpool's International Slavery Museum is an essential part of deepening our historical sense as Britons in today's multi-ethnic society.”",
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                        "text": "Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very insulting to black Dutch people. It's shocking to me that it still exists, but I think it's about the lack of knowledge and education regarding the roots of the character in the slave trade.",
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                        "text": "Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit would diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country; but I despair of seeing it.",
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