Diffusion Quote by Jefferson Davis

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The system was psychological and physical at the same time. The slaves were taught discipline, were impressed again and again with the idea of…

— Howard Zinn

“Slavery is as much about the psychological control of the master over the slave as of the physical domination, cruelty and exploitation which we…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters

— George Fitzhugh

I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the…

— Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture; the reduction of the…

— Howard Zinn

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much…

— Alexander Herzen

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

— John Adams

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own…

— Henry Charles Carey

Slavery is a long slow process of dulling.

— Octavia Butler