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Slavery Quotes by James Madison
- The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
- We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised…
- Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.
- American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those…
- It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a…
- Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
- If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of…
- In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and…
- The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising…
- The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences…
- Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves
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