Slavery Quote by Robert Dale Owen Download Open image “We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.” — Robert Dale Owen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Slavery Time
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing… — Maria Weston Chapman Copy Share Image
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of thepeople who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must work together, across nations and sectors. Only then will we consign the hideous crime of slavery to the history books. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going to have… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
