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“Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.”

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This influential work delves into the philosophical underpinnings of political authority and governance, examining the relationship between individuals and the state through the lens of a hypothetical social contract. more

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a French philosopher, writer, and composer, considered one of the most important figures of the Enlightenment. His works have had a profound impact on subsequent literature, political, and social theories. more

“Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.”

May Doe Ends Young Humanity Behinds Gone Periods Disease Adults Constitution Mark Slavery Toxic Complaints Infancy Poisoning Infantile Measles

Author:Olive Schreiner

“Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.”

Inspirational Slavery Slave Be A Slave Human Trafficking Trafficking

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.”

World Humans Facts Depends Civilization Machines Slavery Slave Insecure Demoralizing

Author:Oscar Wilde

“The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.”

Men Love Justice Principles Eternal Slavery Slave Selfishness Shock Opposition Extensions His Love Collision Be A Slave Antagonism

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.”

Want Whole Christian Suffering Enjoy Creatures Fellows Slavery Neighbor Plenty Code Ease Meals Coats

Author:James F. Cooper

“Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.”

Men Mind Home Left Pleasure Gold Increase England Paid Slavery Stranger Rage Treasure Coast Forlorn

Book:The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

Source: The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

“I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?”

Slavery Pity Sugar Mum Rum

Book:Works of Cowper and Thomson

Source: Works of Cowper and Thomson

“Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.”

Men Institutions Slavery Slave Monkeys Converting Be A Slave

Book:Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838

Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838

“To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days”

Values Dog Car Exercise Mercy Treats Slavery Slave Owners Automobile Slave Owners

Author:Edward Hoagland

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