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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife and failure, - is it the twilight of nightfall or the flush of some faint-dawning day? The answer lies in each of us. For somewhere in your past ... somewhere some 100 years ago?there rose from the smoldering ashes of slavery?a proud and humble family who suffered and struggled with life. A family who found the strength to endure all the indignities of life in America, and that family had the hope for a taste of her bounties in the future.”

“The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the heads of all the great departments of trade, and the law of Cain, which repudiates the obligations that we are mutually under to one another, is fostered and made the rule of action throughout the world. Corporate feudality has taken the place of chattel slavery and vaunts its power in every state.”

People World Made States Action Law Known Struggle Taken Slavery Trade Obligation Golden Corporate Department Rejected Civics Golden Rule Cain Vaunt

Author:James B. Weaver

“Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.”

World Fool Slavery Refuse Gentle Fancy Tactics Manipulate Meek Pussy

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another; and whether the form in which slavery exists in the South is not but one modification of this universal condition... Let those who are interested remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.”

Wells Country Would Be Remember Form Left Community Wealth Conditions Source Labor Universal Slavery South Wealthy Civilized Portions Modification

Author:John C. Calhoun

“God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.”

Knows Giving Evil Constitution Slavery Endure Protection God Knows Detest

Book:Millard Fillmore Papers

Source: Millard Fillmore Papers

“Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.”

Hatred Slavery Inevitable Aftermath

Author:Jose Marti

“We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.”

Looks Law Cases Conscience Institutions Slavery Publicists

Author:Roger Brooke Taney

“I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.”

I Can Christian Names Liberty Millions Cry Victim Slavery Acknowledge Necks Tyrants Rejoice Goddess Bows Deities Crushed Lashes Groaning

Author:Thaddeus Stevens

“Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.”

Men Lasts Lying Struggle Economic Mankind Slavery Deeper Sheep Savages Last Words Inhumanity Crumbs Inhumanity To Man Economic Slavery

Book:Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

Source: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

“I have made some enemies. My enemies in the southern states consisted of those who oppressed the black slave. My enemies in the north are among those who would perpetuate the slavery of the wage workers”

Made States Black Enemy Slavery Slave Workers Southern Oppressed

Author:Albert Parsons

“It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body”

Mind Body Slavery Parts Of The Body

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.”

Thinking Progress Slavery Regression

Author:Richard John Neuhaus

“The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class. This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we’ve torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But it’s ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.”

Stills Moments Hands Lying Father Belief Nations Class Land Citizens Built Slavery Unions Liberation Genocide Imperfect Fabric Torn Founding Imperialism Stolen

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.”

Honor Slavery Slave Western Holocaust Ancestor Stolen Spaghetti American Slavery Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western

Author:Spike Lee

“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”

“Since Christianity is in fact a slave religion, it is satirical at least to see the negro adopt a slave religion, after chattel slavery was ended. It simply underlines the fact that consciously or unconsciously, weak humans desire the status of sheep, no matter what they say.”

Humans Matter Facts Desire Christianity Weak No Matter What Slavery Slave Sheep Satirical

Author:Tom Metzger

“The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question is a social question. The whole age-long fight of the Irish people against their oppressors resolves itself in the last analysis into a fight for the mastery of the means of life, the sources of production, in Ireland. Who would own and control the land? The people, or the invaders; and if the invaders, which set of them - the most recent swarm of land thieves, or the sons of the thieves of a former generation?”

“When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.”

“Socialism is a new form of slavery.”

Form Political Politics Slavery Socialism

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”

Thinking Reality Political Politics Ignorance Civilization Slavery Desert Empires Portions Careless Pretense Slaughter

Author:Tacitus

“And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.”

Children Responsible Slavery

Author:Mother Jones

“Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.”

People Done Character Nations Higher Slavery Slave Be A Slave Abolishing Slavery

Author:Maria Weston Chapman

“I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the states, - opposed to taking the power from the hands of the people, - opposed to special monopolies, - opposed to a protective tariff, - opposed to a latitudinal construction of the constitution, - opposed to slavery agitation and disunion. This is my democracy. Point to a single act of my public career not in keeping with these principles.”

“Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve their slavery. A tyrant does not make his tyranny possible. It is made by the people and not otherwise.”

People Ifs Doe Made Names Deserve Slavery Guilt Tyranny Permit Tyrants Exploitation Warmongers Regimentation

Author:Jack Parsons

“Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.”

Humans Littles Nations Animal Slavery Dumb Attributes Submissive

Author:Ibn Khaldun

“America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which they fully expected their offspring to fulfill. So the words 'all men are created equal' took a life of its own, ultimately destined to end slavery and enfranchise women. And the words 'equal protection' and 'due process' inevitably led to the end of the words 'separate but equal,' ensuring that the walls of segregation would crumble, whether at the lunch counter or at the voting booth.”

Source: Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

“The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.”

Knows Men Mass Ultimate Regard Slavery Conservative

Book:The Conscience of a Conservative

Source: The Conscience of a Conservative

“Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.”

Wells Crime Constitution Slavery Amendments Abolish Amendment 13

Author:Angela Davis

“Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.”

America Havens Slavery Penalties Death Penalty Against Death Penalty

Author:Angela Davis

“I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.”

“The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country where it is unnecessary to have a past, what is a luxury for the nation as a whole becomes a prime social necessity for the Negro. For him, a group tradition must supply compensation for persecution, and pride of race the antidote for prejudice. History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generation must repair and offset.”

“I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.”

Thinking Important States United United States Involved Consequence Slavery Dialogue

Author:Bob Matsui

“To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?”

Men World Doe Two Different Slavery Slave Ignorant Latter Different Things Deceived Another Man Be A Slave Two Different Things

Book:The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)

Source: The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)

“More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.”

Trying War Fighting Months Drug Slavery Slave War On Drugs Inception

Author:Mira Sorvino

“No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It only says that you should treat your slaves well. Well, I don't care if you treat them well. How is it possible that it is not immoral to own another person? Why isn't that one of the Ten Commandments? 'Thou shalt not own another person.' You want to sit here and tell me that fornication is worse than owning someone?”

Ifs Want Should Wells Persons Doe Care Ten Fairs Treats Slavery Slave Don't Care I Don't Care Commandments Immoral Ten Commandments

Author:Mira Sorvino

“Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.”

Source: Haiti After the Earthquake

“The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.”

War Sin Originals Slavery Core Civil War Original Sin

Author:John Fund

“Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.”

Ifs Has Beens States Together United Constitution Regard Slavery Property Unions Species Obligation Recognition Enjoyed Formation Confederation

Author:Jefferson Davis

“Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.”

Knows Evil Masters Slavery Slave Familiar Proportion Harshness Diffusion Connexion Masters And Slaves

Author:Jefferson Davis

“Life without hope, the slavery of mankind-a bondage so hopeless that slaves will no longer know they are slaves. Wealth without happiness, abundance without the power to enjoy it. The death of the spirit.”

Knows Spirit Enjoy Wealth Mankind Slavery Slave Abundance Hopeless Bondage Without Hope

Author:Mika

“I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.”

Men World May Born Generations Ignorance Slavery Perceive Riding Deluded Saddles Ugh

Author:Richard Rumbold

“Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.”

Wells Would Be Lying Cases Slavery Misery Secure Welfare Deceit Sovereign Promoting Obliged Allegiance

Book:Sermons: Seven Sermons: A Discourse, Concerning the Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers. The Snare Broken

Source: Sermons: Seven Sermons: A Discourse, Concerning the Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers. The Snare Broken

“To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.”

Writing Masters Tasks Slavery Slave

Author:Susan Sontag

“Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.”

Love Is Hard Work Slavery Without Love Calcutta

Author:Mother Teresa

“It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.”

States Law Slavery Absence Southern Parallels Maintenance Latitude

Author:William H. Seward

“The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and fugitives. The Jews will not dare to raise their necks, bowed under the yoke of perpetual slavery, against the reverence of the Christian faith.”

Christian Jesus Raises Slavery Guilt Jew Dare Necks Reverence Perpetual Christian Faith Servitude Crucifixion Yoke Cain Wanderers

Author:Pope Innocent III

“To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.”

Should Years Seems Animal Should Have Slavery Incredibles Philosopher Equality Oppression Greek Animal Rights Immorality Greek Philosopher

Author:Brigid Brophy

“In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.”

Government Century Slavery Tall Nineteenth Century

Author:William Weld

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