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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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.
Abraham Lincoln
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.
Abraham Lincoln
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.
Abraham Lincoln
Man
Good
Enough
Sheet
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Ziggy Marley
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?
Henry Rollins
Slavery
Happen
Right
Appear
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People speak sometimes about the
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
Frederick Douglass
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.
Frederick Douglass
Found
Know
Out
Slave
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Frederick Douglass
About
Ankle
Chain
End
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Frederick Douglass
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.
Frederick Douglass
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.
Frederick Douglass
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.
Frederick Douglass
Beneath
Does
Heaven
Him
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That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
Frederick Douglass
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.
Frederick Douglass
Crushing
Down
Effects
Experience
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Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
Huey P. Newton
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.
Thomas Sowell
Africa
America
Ancestors
Been
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke
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.
Larry Page
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.
Andrew Carnegie
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.
Leo Tolstoy
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.
Leo Buscaglia
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.
St. Jerome
Belly
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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.
Elon Musk
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.
Robert E. Lee
Acknowledge
Age
Any
Believe
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Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.
Sylvia Plath
Employ
Freedom
How
Know
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
Vernon Howard
Anything
Conscious
Enslaved
Freed
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Vernon Howard
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.
Emily Bronte
Against
Beneath
Crush
Down
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I didn't have anything growing up.
Playboi Carti
Anything
Growing
Growing Up
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Jacob Zuma
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.
Harriet Tubman
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.
Harriet Tubman
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.
Harriet Tubman
Always
Away
Carried
Children
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Indira Gandhi
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.'
Jidenna
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.
Benjamin Lincoln
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.”
Mother Teresa
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.
Friedrich Engels
Slave
Frees
Private
Abolishes
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Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
Fernando Pessoa
Whether
Exist
Slaves
Gods
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
Marcus Garvey
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.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Because
Day
Every
Face
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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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.
Kailash Satyarthi
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.
Kailash Satyarthi
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.
Kailash Satyarthi
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.
Kailash Satyarthi
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.
Kailash Satyarthi
Action
Attention
Community
Concrete
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