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“Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.”

Men Fellows Slavery Fellow Man

Book:The Life that Really is

Source: The Life that Really is

“He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.”

Causes Color Skins Fellows Slavery Worthy Guilty Prey Doom Pow Worthy Causes

Book:The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Of the Inner Temple

Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Of the Inner Temple

“To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.”

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.”

“Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.”

Men Mind Parent Levels Produce Ignorance Fellows Slavery Woods Observation Comparison Domination Barbarism Abhorrence Tenants

Book:Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

“Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.”

Ifs Humans Human Beings Racism Fellows Slavery Burden Discrimination Beast Unfair Xenophobia Branded Beast Of Burden

Book:God Is Not A Christian

Source: God Is Not A Christian

“By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.”

Two Levels Rights Wonderful Human Nature Divine Higher Fellows Slavery Slave Human Rights Paradox Higher Level Reciprocity

Book:The Man with the Hoe; with Notes by the Author

Source: The Man with the Hoe; with Notes by the Author

“Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.”

Want Whole Christian Suffering Enjoy Creatures Fellows Slavery Neighbor Plenty Code Ease Meals Coats

Author:James F. Cooper

“Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down upon their fellow creatures with contempt, esteeming them as dogs or devils, and imagining themselves beings of superior dignity and importance, to whom all are indebted. This banishes the idea, and unqualifies the mind for the practice of common justice.”

Source: A Kentucky Protest Against Slavery: Slavery Inconsistent with Justice and Good Policy, Proved by a Speech, Delivered in the Convention, Held at Danville, Kentucky

“America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.”

Firsts Humans Country Earth Lasts America Nations Human Beings Fellows Slavery Nuclear Bombs Abolish Nuclear Bomb

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless children are forced to become soldiers, work in sweat shops or are sold by desperate families. Women are brutalized and traded like commodities. Entire households and villages labour under debt bondage.”

“It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.”

Should Ideas Seems Liberty Creatures Fellows Slavery Incredibles Selling

Author:James Forten

“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”

“Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to become slaves? Will you give up your freedom, your life and your property without a single struggle? No man has a right to rule over his fellow creatures.”

Men Giving Law Freedom Struggle Willing Creatures Giving Up Fellows Slavery Property Slave Your Freedom

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.”

Men Doe Made Soul Land Fellows Slavery Curse Articles Fellow Man

Author:Ezra Cornell