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“The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.”

World Ideas Differences Slavery Complexes Complicated Violent Native

Author:Amiri Baraka

“If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.”

Ifs Stills Government Enemy Building Slavery Threat Flags

Author:Amiri Baraka

“Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil.”

Ifs Wells May Law Justice Poor Rich Masters Arms Labor Slavery Forgotten Privilege Definitions Strikes Generosity Soil Sentiments Wages Freeman Abhorrent

Author:William C. Bryant

“I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.”

People Thinking States Light Moral Subjects Argument Slavery Slave Persuasion

Book:The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia

Source: The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia

“Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.”

Source: The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth

“Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!”

Life God Destruction Slavery Slave Devotion Witness Dedication Abolitionist Consecration

Author:John Brown

“At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.”

Men Firsts Looks Kind May Mean Social Crime Empty Machines Slavery Painful Rhythm Confused Mechanism Typical Glances Anguish Gang Social Life Gaiety

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated!”

Two Jobs Sides Team Republican Management Slavery Democratic Conservative Bunch Waking Ceo Coins Garbage Two Sides Bidding Waking Life

Author:Alex Jones

“Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation”

Christian Dies Moral Influence Holy Slavery South Faithful Flames Indignation Rebuke Demoralizing Moral Indignation

Book:On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

“In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery”

World Way States Slavery Descent

Book:Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures

Source: Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures

“If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.”

“Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.”

“It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage. Christian slaveholders treated their slaves as they did the cattle in their fields: they worked them, scourged them, mated them , parted them, and sold them at will. Abolition came with the decline in religious belief, and largely through the efforts of those who were denounced as heretics.”

“Debt is the slavery of the free.”

Money Slavery Financial Debt Debt Free

Author:Publilius Syrus

“Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.”

Made War Modern Slavery Slave Debt Imposing Old Time

Book:Ezra Pound Speaking

Source: Ezra Pound Speaking

“Before I dismiss this affair of eating and drinking, let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle, if, unhappily, you have been bred up in such slavery.”

Slavery Coffee Tea Free Yourself Kettles

Author:William Cobbett

“I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.”

Wells May Children Reality Father Parent Depends Our Children Institutions Slavery Feminist Granted Stability Cynical Arrangements Family Life Misandry Concubines

Author:Sylvia Fraser

“I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.”

“We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.”

People Two War Conflict Slavery Inevitable Civil War

Author:Horace Greeley

“[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave.”

People May War Ends Light Government Dies Force Causes Sun Land Events Mines Logic Slavery Slave Refuse Superiors Burning Civil War Brown Zeal Inexorable John Brown

Author:Frederick Douglass

“The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor was not economic, besides being morally wrong. Slavery was destined to be abolished, whether for economic reasons or moral reasons matters not, but the international intriguers were not going to wait for voluntary abolition to rob them of their trump card.”

War Matter Reason Waiting Moral Economic Trump Labor Slavery Slave South International Scales Cards Civil War Owners Destined Abolition Tipping Plantations Slave Labor

Author:John Coleman

“There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union Army were adamantly opposed to freeing slaves. We cite these facts and recorded statistics to point out that the principal cause of the war was not the issue of slavery.”

Men War Facts Causes Issues He Man Army Slavery Unions Slave Civil War Owners Statistics Principal Confederate Citing Slave Owners

Author:John Coleman

“The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.”

War Turns Moral Issues Economic Slavery Civil War Crusades Economic Issues

Author:G. Edward Griffin

“Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into the Union army. But this did not last. Northerners may have disapproved of slavery in the South but, once the bloodletting began in earnest, their willingness to die for that conviction began to wane. [...] Lincoln faced the embarrassing reality that he soon would have no army to carry on the crusade.”

May War Reality Lasts Moving Dies Army Slavery Unions South Conviction Brilliant Civil War Willingness Embarrassing Earnest Crusades Converting Recruit Northerners Bloodletting

Author:G. Edward Griffin

“Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck with the system they inherited. They felt that a complete and sudden abolition of slavery with no transition period would destroy their economy and leave many of the former slaves to starve - all of which actually happened in due course.”

“If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede?”

Ifs Want Needs War States Goal Slavery Unions Arise Primaries Preserves Civil War Southern Abolition Abolition Of Slavery

Author:G. Edward Griffin

“[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.”

War Force Interest Half Issues Economic Economics Slavery South Accepted Primaries Civil War Clash Half Truth

Author:G. Edward Griffin

“The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.”

Should War States Problem Individual Left Causes Slavery Excuse Compromise Civil War Intervention Prohibition Causes Of War

Author:Eustace Mullins

“I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason for the planting and spreading of slavery.”

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Author:Albert G. Brown

“There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.”

War Known Civilization Institutions Foundation Slavery Civil War Respectable

Author:Robert M. T. Hunter

“African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.”

War Political Social Existence Stones Institutions Slavery South Corners Strikes Civil War Fabric Barbarism Depopulation

Author:Laurence M. Keitt

“The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of their people, upon the well-defined constitutional rights of the Southern citizens; the rapid growth and increase, in all the elements of power, of a purely sectional party.”

“Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which we now fear, originates chiefly from questions growing out of the respective rights of the different States and the unfortunate subject of slavery.”

Different War Country States Suffering Evil Causes President Growing Rights Subjects Slavery Civil War Unfortunate Discontent

Author:John J. Crittenden

“Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.”

“If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.”

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Author:Howell Cobb

“I say, then, that viewed from that standpoint, there is but one single subject of complaint which Virginia has to make against the government under which we live; a complaint made by the whole South, and that is on the subject of African slavery.”

Made War Whole Government Subjects Slavery South Civil War Complaints Virginia Standpoint

Author:John Brown Baldwin

“But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other cause of complaint which has been influential in any quarter, to bring about the crisis which is now upon us; if any State or any people have made the troubles growing out of this question, a pretext for agitation instead of a cause of honest complaint, Virginia can have no sympathy whatever, in any such feeling, in any such policy, in any such attempt. It is the slavery question. Is it not so?”

People Ifs Has Beens Made War States Feelings Causes Growing Trouble Honest Policy Crisis Slavery Civil War Quarters Complaints Influential Virginia Pretext Agitation No Sympathy

Author:John Brown Baldwin

“The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.”

Humans Has Beens War States Liberty Slavery Civil War Efficient Aggression Defence

Author:John C. Calhoun

“Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth.”

Believe War Earth Faces Produce Highest Organization Slavery Civil War Regulation Planters

Book:Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina

Source: Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina

“The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon this floor, I will abandon it the instant the first decisive step is taken looking towards legislation of this subject. I will go home to preach, and if I can, practice, disunion, and civil war, if needs be. A revolution must ensue, and this republic sink in blood.”

Source: Remarks of Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Question of Receiving Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia

“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.”

“Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.”

War Hours Police Slavery Locals Civil War Regulation

Book:The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Source: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

“My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.”

War Struggle Slavery Unions Objectives Civil War Paramount

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to misery hereafter. The few have said "Think" The many have said "Believe!"”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social laws, not authoritatively imposed but inherent in things, in relations, in situations, the natural development of which is expressed by those laws. We say YES if they are political and juridical laws, imposed upon men by men.”

“They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is: No dictatorship can have any other aim but that of self-perpetuation, and it can beget only slavery in the people tolerating it; freedom can be created only by freedom, that is, by a universal rebellion on the part of the people and free organization of the toiling masses from the bottom up.”

People Self Courses Answers Mass Organization Universal Aim Slavery Bottom Rebellion Anarchy Dictatorship Begets Toiling

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.”

Ifs World Facts Today Together Religious Leader Vision Happened Fit Slavery Western Destroyed Around The World Businessman Religious Leaders

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.””

Wells Kind Made War Helping Government Black Poverty Evidence Program Slavery Moved Spending Discrimination All Kinds Welfare Assumption Survived Federal Government Taxpayers Black Family

Author:Thomas Sowell

“What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel.”

“Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?”

Trying Order Social Slavery Slave Saint Ministers Social Order

Book:On Pilgrimage

Source: On Pilgrimage

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