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Slavery Quotes by Jefferson Davis
- African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
- 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.…
- My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's…
- The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting…
- Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that…
- Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If…
- Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that…
- This war must go on till the last of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and fight our battle,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
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