Best slavery & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.”

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts

“By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.”

Men Humans Character Law Slavery Mere God Image

Book:The Complete Works of Charles Sumner

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Sumner

“It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.”

“...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... Nostation or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.”

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Author:Angelina Grimke

“Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.”

Men Mean Reason Character Able Slavery Slave Preserves Servitude Syllables

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.”

Source: Essays and Lectures

“Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.”

Humans Character Slavery Foul Contagion

Author:John Adams

“Freedom is not simply the circumstances that allow you to do whatever you want. Freedom is not only the opportunity to choose. Freedom is the strength of character to choose and to do what is right. With that in mind, our age is not an age of freedom, but an age of slavery. It is subtle, but it is real. The foundation of freedom is not power or choice. Freedom is upheld not by men and women in government, but by people who govern themselves.”

People Men Want Mind Real Character Government Age Choices Opportunity Freedom Circumstances Men And Women Foundation Slavery Subtle Strength Of Character Do Whatever You Want

Author:Matthew Kelly

“I remember when I wrote a piece, "Blood on the Fields," it was a while ago, it was about slavery and about two characters, and I studied so much of music, I would always go back to the original documents, and as much as I can get original chants and slave chants and different type of beats and rhythms and ring shout.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for England if she is the first European nation which utterly abolishes it! I was told before leaving England that after living in slave countries all my opinions would be altered; the only alteration I am aware of is forming a much higher estimate of the negro character.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very insulting to black Dutch people. It's shocking to me that it still exists, but I think it's about the lack of knowledge and education regarding the roots of the character in the slave trade.”

People Thinking Should Long Stills Character Black Roots Should Have Slavery Trade Slave Shocking Insulting Dutch Relics Education And Knowledge Slave Trade Lack Of Knowledge

Author:Roger Ross Williams

“I think many Dutch just don't know the history of Black Pete, that he is rooted in slavery, and how he was used to dehumanize a race of people. Once they realize this, many stop using this character, but those who continue are either in denial, insensitive or actually racists.”

People Thinking Knows Character Used Black Realizing Race Slavery Denial Racist Rooted Dutch Insensitive

Author:Roger Ross Williams

“It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a people, both abroad and at home, that they should be considered, as much as possible, in the light of human beings, and not as mere property. As such, they are acted on by our laws, and have an interest in our laws. They may be considered as making a part, though a degraded part, of the families to which they belong.”

People Should Humans May Character Home Light Law Humanity Interest Justice Human Beings Fine Slavery Property Mere Dues

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.”

Character Wanted Republican Slavery Outlets

Book:Letters and Other Writings of James Madison

Source: Letters and Other Writings of James Madison

“Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.”

Character Law Order Natural Slavery Scary Command Preservation Disturbance Natural Order

Author:Saint Augustine

“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.”

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Author:Maria Weston Chapman

“Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to their willingness to accept slavery. The state had been transformed, and the old Roman character gone for ever. Equality among citizens was completely abandoned. All now waited on the imperial command.”

States Character Law Wealth Accepting History Gone Position Citizens Slavery Command Proportion Executives Willingness Abandoned Senate Transformed Aristocracy Augustus

Author:Tacitus

“The years in captivity fuels character development”

Character Suffering Wise Words Slavery Captivity Philsophy Imprison

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“We are enslaved, not by the promise we have made, but by the desire to keep it.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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