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Slavery Quotes by George Washington
- Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive…
- I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.
- 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…
- I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.
- The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state…
- The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use…
- [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…
- Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of…
- I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the…
More Slavery Quotes
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Socialism means slavery. — Lord Acton
- If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams
- Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.… — Isaiah Berlin
- You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery… — William Blake
- The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? — W. E. B. Du Bois
- Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. — W. E. B. Du Bois
- As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. — Julian Bond
- A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. — Rita Mae Brown
- Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds. — Pearl S. Buck
- Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. — Edmund Burke