Slaveholders Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way. — Stephen Ambrose
Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it… — David Walker
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are… — Bill Maher
The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder. — Henry Clarke Wright
It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove… — William Lloyd Garrison
For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the… — Frederick Douglass
I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimesâ€”a justifier of the most appalling barbarityâ€¦a… — Frederick Douglass
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a… — George William Curtis
A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep for us to… — Joseph Sobran
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with… — Gerrit Smith
It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he… — Solomon Northup
Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty. — Denis Kearney
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but… — Mark Twain
I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab. — Harriet Tubman
The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South. — Susan B. Anthony
Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what… — William Lloyd Garrison
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are… — William H. Seward

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