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> [“Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-vowell/um-i-asked-isn-t-the-whole-point-about-being-a-slave-that-you-don-t/)

[Sarah Vowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-vowell/)

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> [“Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-g-jung/every-roman-was-surrounded-by-slaves-the-slave-and-his-psychology/)

[C.G. Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-g-jung/)

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> [“That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bradley/that-is-what-the-slave-trade-was-all-about-not-death-from-poxes-and/)

[David Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bradley/)

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> [Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-forrest/wherever-we-ve-gone-around-the-world-we-ve-found-quite-significant/)

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

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> [My brother has two children now, so I've been playing aunt Renee. They're two and four. It's chaos. Moms out there, kudos…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renee-zellweger/my-brother-has-two-children-now-so-i-ve-been-playing-aunt-renee-they/)

[Renee Zellweger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renee-zellweger/)

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> [The American Dream has really good PR. It's kind of difficult to live in the United States and not on some level…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-b-pinn/the-american-dream-has-really-good-pr-it-s-kind-of-difficult-to-live/)

[Anthony B Pinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-b-pinn/)

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> [The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-stevenson/the-greatest-evil-of-american-slavery-was-not-involuntary-servitude/)

[Bryan Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryan-stevenson/)

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> [It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-de-tocqueville/it-must-not-be-forgotten-that-it-is-especially-dangerous-to-enslave/)

[Alexis de Tocqueville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/)

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> [“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/older-forms-of-indentured-servanthood-and-the-bond-service-of/)

[Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/)

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> [The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jefferson-davis/the-war-must-go-on-till-the-last-man-of-this-generation-falls-in-his/)

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

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> [I don't want to give too much lugubrious thought to the gravitas of a coherent album. I don't want to develop a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/van-dyke-parks/i-don-t-want-to-give-too-much-lugubrious-thought-to-the-gravitas-of-a/)

[Van Dyke Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/van-dyke-parks/)

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> [I think all Americans need to recognize that, as tragic and horrible as slavery was, as big an economic shadow as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lonnie-bunch/i-think-all-americans-need-to-recognize-that-as-tragic-and-horrible/)

[Lonnie Bunch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lonnie-bunch/)

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> [Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God, let him go to the Bible...I said that slavery was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jefferson-davis/let-the-gentleman-go-to-revelation-to-learn-the-decree-of-god-let-him-2/)

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

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> [Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-rozema/maybe-it-s-the-remnants-of-my-religious-upbringing-but-i-do-try-and/)

[Patricia Rozema](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-rozema/)

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> [“Private ownerships of a ...slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monopoly, much like other forms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/private-ownerships-of-a-slave-chip-is-illegal-in-many-polities-it/)

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

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> [Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hillary-clinton/modern-slavery-be-it-bonded-labor-involuntary-servitude-or-sexual/)

[Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hillary-clinton/)

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> [Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fidel-castro/even-in-the-united-states-the-enslavement-of-african-descendants/)

[Fidel Castro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fidel-castro/)

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> [... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-b-anthony/even-i-am-growing-accustomed-to-slavery-so-much-so-that-i-cease-to/)

[Susan B. Anthony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-b-anthony/)

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> [The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-whole-commerce-between-master-and-slave-is-a-perpetual-exercise/)

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

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> [“No one is more vulnerable to fear than a man who keeps another in bondage. He will do anything to prevent justice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jensen/no-one-is-more-vulnerable-to-fear-than-a-man-who-keeps-another-in/)

[Jane Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jensen/)

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> [“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mokokoma-mokhonoana/among-other-possibilities-money-was-invented-to-make-it-possible-for/)

[Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mokokoma-mokhonoana/)

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> [I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marion-barry/i-read-a-funny-story-about-how-the-republicans-freed-the-slaves-the/)

[Marion Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marion-barry/)

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> [In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/in-all-of-human-history-no-country-or-no-people-have-suffered-such/)

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

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> [Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adela-popescu/humans-call-animals-dumb-after-they-robbed-their-entire-own-precious/)

[Adela Popescu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adela-popescu/)

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> [“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saidiya-hartman/why-was-it-i-sometimes-felt-as-weary-of-america-as-if-i-too-had/)

[Saidiya Hartman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saidiya-hartman/)

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> [Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-cain/most-of-the-ancestors-that-i-can-trace-were-born-here-in-the-united/)

[Herman Cain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-cain/)

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> [“The white man's cruelest trick was not to conquer or even enslave, but simply to soften, weaken and corrupt every culture or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-cain/the-white-man-s-cruelest-trick-was-not-to-conquer-or-even-enslave-but/)

[Tom Cain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-cain/)

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> [As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-k-ingalls/as-the-feudal-system-retained-many-of-the-elements-of-slavery/)

[Joshua K. Ingalls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-k-ingalls/)

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> [Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom… The subjection of individuals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-de-tocqueville/americans-are-so-enamored-of-equality-that-they-would-rather-be-equal/)

[Alexis de Tocqueville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-de-tocqueville/)

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> [I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loretta-napoleoni/i-found-a-correlation-between-the-spreading-of-democracy-after-the/)

[Loretta Napoleoni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loretta-napoleoni/)

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> [Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-meltzer/slavery-as-an-institution-that-degraded-man-to-a-thing-has-never-died/)

[Milton Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-meltzer/)

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> [Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angelina-grimke/only-let-the-north-exert-as-much-moral-influence-over-the-south-as/)

[Angelina Grimke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angelina-grimke/)

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> [Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-gide/man-the-most-complex-of-creatures-and-for-this-reason-the-most/)

[Andre Gide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-gide/)

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> [As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-sharpton/as-i-often-say-we-have-come-a-long-way-from-the-days-of-slavery-but/)

[Al Sharpton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-sharpton/)

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> [The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-toombs/the-north-understand-it-better-they-have-told-us-for-twenty-years/)

[Robert Toombs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-toombs/)

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> [Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-yukteswar-giri/pain-and-pleasure-are-transitory-endure-all-dualities-with-calmness/)

[Sri Yukteswar Giri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-yukteswar-giri/)

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> [Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hodgkinson/life-has-been-reduced-to-a-series-of-long-periods-of-boredom-in-the/)

[Tom Hodgkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hodgkinson/)

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> [“What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-moten-and-stefano-harney/what-is-so-to-speak-the-object-of-abolition-not-so-much-the-abolition/)

[Fred Moten and Stefano Harney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-moten-and-stefano-harney/)

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> [To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hoagland/to-relive-the-relationship-between-owner-and-slave-we-can-consider/)

[Edward Hoagland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hoagland/)

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> [Slavery is the nagging, unrelenting shame of America that continues to deny the true promise of the country to too many its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-hickenlooper/slavery-is-the-nagging-unrelenting-shame-of-america-that-continues-to/)

[John Hickenlooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-hickenlooper/)

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                        "text": "The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence,and that, or extermination, we WILL have.",
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                        "text": "Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.",
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                        "text": "Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom… The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.",
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