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"74 Slavery Quotes

You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

Think Wrong Between While
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The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.

Victory Complete Proclaim God
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I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.

Leave Lamp Burn Equal
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No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle–the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

Man Good Enough Sheet
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Silent Pain Enjoy Kill
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URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

Incubators Grassroots Hospital
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If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, you will have the Palinesque guts, the Cruzian fortitude to wave off the ambulance that will appear to scoop you up should something bad happen to you, right?

Slavery Happen Right Appear
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People speak sometimes about the

People Speak Sometimes Bestial
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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Advantage Being First First One
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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Found Know Out Slave
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
About Ankle Chain End
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Expected Generally Sing Slaves
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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

Across Bay Born Could
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Agitation Crops Favor Freedom
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There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

Beneath Does Heaven Him
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That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

Cannot Divine Inhuman Which
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Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.

Crushing Down Effects Experience
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Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Any Given Moment People
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Africa America Ancestors Been
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Every Grows Slavery Soil
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The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.

Answer Any Everyone Idea
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He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Bigot Cannot Dare Fool
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Consists Death Forcing Others
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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Choose Enslavement Entails Free
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My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

Belly God Land Live
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You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

Anything Around Could Dome
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In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

Acknowledge Age Any Believe
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Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.

Employ Freedom How Know
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Anything Conscious Enslaved Freed
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Attacks Cannot Clearly Exterior
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Against Beneath Crush Down
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I didn't have anything growing up.

Anything Growing Growing Up
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Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.
Africa Centuries Dominance European
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

Back Been Condition Dreadful
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

Another Appears Bad Bondage
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.

Always Away Carried Children
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Martyrdom End Beginning
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America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'

America Haunted Apparition Steeped
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He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Slave Consent Freedom Deserve
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“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”

Poverty Decide Child Die
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The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

Slave Frees Private Abolishes
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.

Whether Exist Slaves Gods
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Chance Hope Never People
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The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.

Because Day Every Face
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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Prolonged slavery Darkest page Human history
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

Able Answer Away Blot
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Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Against Child Child Labor Crime
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If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

Buying Child Conditions Equally
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

Accountability Across Against Child
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.

Action Attention Community Concrete
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