Civil war Quote by William H. Seward

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

— Ernestine Rose

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

— David Brion Davis

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

— Norbert Wiener

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

— Leo Tolstoy

We know an organised workforce cannot be enslaved, but when governments fail their citizens and allow corporations to escape the rule of law, slavery…

— Sharan Burrow

If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system…

— Orestes Brownson

When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded…

— Gerry Spence

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

— Abraham Lincoln

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

— Anatoly Chubais

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.

— Pope Leo I

Religion and slavery are incompatible.

— B. R. Ambedkar

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

— Charles Bukowski