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Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may…
— John Jay
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This country was formed for the white not for the black man. And looking upon African slavery from the same stand-point, as held by those…
— John Wilkes
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The Constitution...expressly recognizes the right to hold slaves as property in states where slavery exists. This, then, is not a question of general morality, affecting…
— James Buchanan
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Come and be love's willing slave, for love's slavery will save you. Forsake the slavery of the world and take up love's sweet service.
— Rumi
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I am a slave to your love. Well, more like indentured servant
— Hussein Nishah
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When the civil rights are denying by the authorities, in a country.The people will be under the slavery , from the slavery all social unrest…
— Sumesh Nair
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Glittering things can screw very much,Why we behind is not by the desire, it is by the passion.The desire has end , but passion doesn't…
— Sumesh Nair
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Fear is slavery , work is liberty and courage is victory. .
— Sahil Pandita
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Passover has a message for the conscience and the heart of all mankind. For what does it commemorate? It commemorates the deliverance of a people…
— Morris Joseph
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These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostileto slavery] must be watched.Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the…
— Rutherford Birchard Hayes
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Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with aspirit of liberty; as superstition, on the contrary, renders men tame and…
— David Hume
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Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brandof slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
— George Eliot
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Take away greed, the fear of human progress, modern day slavery, Machine mind and heart, One world power, then Humanity will be reborn once again.
— Jasari
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Our situation illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to…
— Jefferson Davis
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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 sanctioned in the…
— Jefferson Davis
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Slavery was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed in all ages,…
— Jefferson Davis
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Never become a slave to your own thinking and your own self. Understand that you are continuously changing. But, in which way you will change…
— Ruben Papian
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