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What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully… — Susan B. Anthony
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — Mercedes Lackey
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can… — Edward Abbey
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings. — Edward Abbey
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends… — Alexis de Tocqueville
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed… — Thomas Jefferson
Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess the… — Richard Henry Lee
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to… — Booker T. Washington
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to… — Will Durant
The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery. — Karl Marx
As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of… — Karl Marx
Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors. — Charles Bukowski
Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget. — Bill T. Jones
If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians. — Rush Limbaugh
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have… — Simone de Beauvoir
They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice… — Malcolm X
Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either… — Antonin Scalia
It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness that results from… — Nathanael Greene
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. — Robert Charles Winthrop
If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today.… — Paul Watson
There shall be no slavery of the mind. — Victor Hugo
Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or… — Paul Robeson
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing. — Jefferson Davis
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence.… — Jefferson Davis

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