Slaves Quotes

696 Slaves quotes by 483 unique authors

Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the… — William Lloyd Garrison
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent,… — Samuel Morse
Luke warm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them… — Francis Chan
Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are. — William Stafford
There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house… — Mary Boykin Chesnut
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave. — Charles Caleb Colton
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. — Ezra Pound
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated… — Abraham Lincoln
There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union Army… — John Coleman
Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in… — G. Edward Griffin
As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became… — Eustace Mullins
However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of… — Eustace Mullins
I said that one of the causes, and the one that has created more excitement and dissatisfaction than any other, is, that the Government will… — Unknown Author
If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong. — Unknown Author
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save… — Abraham Lincoln
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within… — Abraham Lincoln
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor… — Ulysses S. Grant
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no… — Ayn Rand
The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we… — Norbert Wiener
The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of… — Andreas Vesalius
Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery? — Dorothy Day
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed! — Marine Le Pen

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