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Source: ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.”

“From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own fault's slavery, If I can sing, I still am free. For with my singing I can make A refuge for my spirit's sake, A house of shining words, to be My fragile immortality.”

Ifs Stills I Can Hands Spirit House My Own Beats Singing Slavery Shining Faults Sake Defeat Immortality Sand Gray Fragile Refuge Pulse Sifting

Book:Love Songs

Source: Love Songs

“They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.”

Ifs Men Want Wanted Black White Position Willing Slavery Assuming Including Gender Conform White Man Norm Black Women Domination Prevailing Sexist

Author:Bell Hooks

“I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

Ifs Men Feels Should Firsts Desire Strong Freedom Slavery Slave Arguing Impulse Be A Slave American Slavery Slavery In America

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk along the line as if they were led on a string. The transition from the line to the plane into the two dimensions, when you wander across a field or through a wood, is a splendid liberation to the slaves, like the French Revolution. But in the air you are taken into the full freedom of the three dimensions; after long ages of exile and dreams the homesick heart throws itself into the arms of space.”

Source: Out of Africa

“Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.”

Ifs Stills Passion Left Community Natural Views Democracy Regret Taste Slavery Democratic Equality Cherish Invincible Deprivation Ardent Insatiable Incessant

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.”

Ifs May America Faces Goal Freedom Destiny Failing Slavery Cruelty Opposition Tied Our Destiny Tied Up Scorned

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro - slavery and anti - women.”

People Ifs Religion Accepting Honest Gay Catholic Slavery Definitions Conservative Journalist Secular Protestants Evangelical Roman Catholic Anti Gay Pro Slavery

Author:John Shelby Spong

“If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.”

Ifs Way Courage Rocks Slavery African American Tenacity Lashes

Author:Mary McLeod Bethune

“If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.”

Ifs Stills Gone Violence Weapons Slavery

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.”

“If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

“When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.”

Ifs Want Community Judging Institutions Slavery Slave Logical

Book:The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

Source: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

“Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.”

Ifs Men Principles Objects Judging Slavery Slave One Man Sovereignty Another Man Popular Sovereignty

Book:Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings

Source: Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings

“Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.”

Ifs Long Done Lost Labor Slavery Compromise Extending No Compromise

Book:The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.”

Ifs Thinking Feels I Can Feelings Remember Judgment Understood Slavery Civil War Can Not Presidency Remember When American Slavery Slavery In America Anti Slavery

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.”

Ifs Men Want Dies Fighting Slavery Slave Shoulders Yoke Be A Slave

Author:Robert Falls

“If I thought, had any idea, that I'd ever be a slave again, I'd take a gun an' jus end it all right away. Because you're nothing but a dog. You're not a thing but a dog.”

Ifs Ideas Ends Dog Gun Slavery Slave Be A Slave

Author:Fountain Hughes

“It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine of fifty dollars and a jail sentence. . . Our ignorance was the greatest hold the South had on us. We knew we could run away, but what then?”

Ifs Men Trying Running Law White Ignorance Fine Slavery Dollars Slave South Caught Sentences Fifty Jail Educate Running Away White Man Liable Prosecution

Author:John W. Campbell

“I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.”

Ifs Thinking Men Hands Natural Religious Mouths Slavery Theology Bread Controversy

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.”

Ifs Want Feels Should Mind Looks Action Watches Example Slavery Crowds Refuse Reactions Daring Compelled Compulsion Action And Reaction

Author:Vernon Howard

“Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in... But, if you want to continue to be a slave of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit.”

“I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.”

Ifs Thinking Should States Whole Desire United United States Objects Slavery Unions Spread

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.”

People Ifs Stills Wish Causes Enemy Republican Slavery Slave South Administration Civil War Interfere

Book:The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.”

Ifs Giving Creatures Slavery Be A Slave Slavery Freedom

Book:Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

“I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.”

Ifs Done Evil Amount Slavery Consideration Expenses Paramount

Book:1816-1828

Source: 1816-1828

“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.”

Ifs Humans May Sometimes Care Evil Human Nature Serious Source Slavery Abolition Abolition Of Slavery Slavery Freedom

Book:The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

“I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.”

Ifs Believe Happens Together Evil Opportunity I Believe Slavery Slave Unhappy Pity Abolish Descendants Transmit Abhorrence

Book:Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries

Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries

“Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of property in man. If in its origin slavery had any relation to the government, it was only as the scaffolding to the magnificent structure, to be removed as soon as the building was completed.”