“Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” HumansExerciseArgumentSlaverySlaveOppressionIllegalTyrantsCreedsExertionHuman FreedomInfringement Author:William Pitt
“In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how to treat their slaves. "Slaves, obey your masters. Masters, be kind to yourslaves." Paul was in favor of a kinder and gentler slavery; it never occurred to him to raise the question about whether slavery itself was immoral.” PeopleKindMastersArgumentTreatsRaisesSlaverySlaveFavorsAddressesBe KindImmoralSegregationKinderColossians Author:John Shelby Spong
“We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of slavery. We discussed it for centuries in metaphysical, economic, biological, and philosophical terms; we listened to all the arguments pro and con, we read all the testimonies of slaves and witnesses, and we decided. Though this 'we" is not everybody on earth, or even most people, who've never thought about slavery much.” PeopleKindEarthTermMoralEconomicCenturyParticularTruth IsArgumentDecidedPhilosophicalSlaverySlaveWitnessInvestigationMetaphysicalTestimonyTheoreticalPros And Cons Author:Catherine Wilson
“You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.” ArgumentSlaveryJustification Author:Desmond Tutu
“Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That those were wrongs done to the black community as a whole, and black families specifically, and that in order to close that gap, a society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it's not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps. It is easy to make that theoretical argument.” IfsDoneWholeFormOrderIndividualCausesEasyBlackCommunityPowerfulMoralPlansCenturyArgumentSlaveryInvestmentDiscriminationChecksObligationPrimariesGapsAggressiveTheoreticalCrowJim CrowReparationsMoral ObligationBlack CommunityBlack FamilyMarshall Plan Author:Barack Obama
“Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years under slavery. America took half of Mexico by force in the Mexican War. American foreign policy, the progressives say it's based on theft. Why? Because look, America is very active in the Middle East. Why? The Middle East has oil. Notice that America doesn't get involved in Haiti or Rwanda because they don't have any oil.” WarCountryPolicyArgumentLaborSlaveryAfrican AmericanForeign PolicyMexicanGet InvolvedRwanda Author:Dinesh D'Souza
“I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.” WorldEndsLawAsksJusticeRightsArgumentSlaveryPrivilegeReignGoverningAbolitionAlphasAbolitionistAlpha And OmegaAbolition Of Slavery Book:What is Property? Source: What is Property?
“When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.” LittlesHardArgumentSlaveryDebateProductiveLunch Author:Ann Coulter
“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.” PeopleThinkingStatesLightMoralSubjectsArgumentSlaverySlavePersuasion 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