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“Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general.”

“Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.”

Way Economic Effects Racism Slavery Disappear Economic Systems

Author:Sarah Churchwell

“The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made people rise to real ambition, real gravity was the sense of posterity, for example - a word that I can remember hearing quite often when I was a child and I never hear anymore. People actually wanted to make the world good for people in generations that they would never see. It makes people think in very large terms to try to liberate women, for example, or to try to eliminate slavery.”

People Thinking World Trying Children Made I Can Real Seems Wanted Remember Term Loss Generations Effects Example Ambition Slavery Hearing Gravity Posterity Seriousness

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.”

Way Effects Revolution Slavery Slave Rebellion Ongoing Abolitionist Haitian Haitian Revolution Ending Slavery

Author:Manisha Sinha

“I hope that young people especially will begin to have a better understanding of slavery and its effects, which are still evident today, to understand those parallels and, from there, begin ta be a part of the wave of hope to change things for the better.”

People Stills Today Young Understanding Effects Slavery Wave Evident Parallels

Author:Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

“Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The idea of slavery is such a base impulse. It's like, "I'm going to kidnap you and then you're going to do everything I want." Like, what? And then there's the historical aspect. It had a huge effect on human history.”

Knows Want Humans Ideas Effects Huge Aspect Slavery Historical Insane Impulse Human History

Author:Neal Brennan

“If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that he persecuted for opinion's sake; that he will punish forever, and that he hates an unbeliever, the effect in my judgment will be bad. It always has been bad. This belief built the dungeons of the Inquisition. This belief made the Puritan murder the Quaker.”

Source: Interviews

“Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.”

May Values Liberty Mankind Effects Revolution Slavery Practicals Wretched American Revolution True Value

Author:Mercy Otis Warren

“The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.”

Knows Want Causes Term Effects Capitalism Advantage Slavery Majority Champion Destroying Dictatorship

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.”

Effects Slavery Inhumanity Toleration

Book:A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery

Source: A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery

“The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.”

World Names Known Moral Class Effects Band Perception Slavery Aristocracy Conceded Slaveholders

Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court