Best slavery & matter Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“...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.”

Believe Matter Character Individual I Believe Sin Responsibility Crime Masters Duty Slavery Slave South Oppression Robbery Rebuke Individual Responsibility

Author:Angelina Grimke

“If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.”

Ifs Thinking Men Matter Lasts Nations Race Comfort Fairs Slavery Ice Ruins Cream Ice Cream Cheaper Completion Decoration Robbing Vanilla

Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in the work process and were viewed not as human beings but as alienated forms of individual wealth. Slavery, in this sense, did not die; it continues in modern dress in contemporary organizations wherever managers exercise autocratic power, unequal status, or arbitrary privileges, no matter how scientific the terminology or postmodern the image”

“Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more infallible than this, "where annual elections end, there slavery begins." These great men ... should be (chosen) once a year-Like bubbles on the sea of matter bourne, they rise, they break, and to the sea return. This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.”

“Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.”

Knows Men May Doe Matter Evil Loses Mistake He Man Masters Gold Slavery Noble Hypocrisy Infamy

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.”

War Matter Philosophy Fighting Three Four Cost Consequence Europe Slavery Historical Slave Notion Jew Flying Tyranny Genocide Trusted Bowls Super Bowl No War

Author:Bill Whittle

“I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!”

People Ifs Thinking Years Country Matter States Names Nations United Pay United States Twenties No Matter What Slavery Volunteer Drains Shameful Conscription Volunteer Service

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

“I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people of Missouri, but let them settle that matter for themselves. I hold that the people of the slaveholding States are civilized men as well as ourselves, that they bear consciences as well as we, and that they are accountable to God and their posterity and not to us. It is for them to decide therefore the moral and religious right of the slavery question for themselves within their own limits.”

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Author:Stephen A. Douglas

“When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.”

Self Matter Accepting Acceptance Slavery Kingdoms Acknowledge

Author:Gerry Spence

“It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts, but perennially one's own, to be used! Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it.”

“I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair of seeing an Abolition of the infernal trafic in Negroes - we must push that matter further on your side the water - I wish that a few well instructed Negroes could be sent among their Brethren in Bondage, for until they are enabled to take their own part nothing will be done.”

Wells Country Matter Done America Wish Sides Water Seeing Despair Spring Slavery Bondage Reformation Your Side Brethren Abolition

Book:Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76)

Source: Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76)

“We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.”

“The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor was not economic, besides being morally wrong. Slavery was destined to be abolished, whether for economic reasons or moral reasons matters not, but the international intriguers were not going to wait for voluntary abolition to rob them of their trump card.”

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Author:John Coleman

“Since Christianity is in fact a slave religion, it is satirical at least to see the negro adopt a slave religion, after chattel slavery was ended. It simply underlines the fact that consciously or unconsciously, weak humans desire the status of sheep, no matter what they say.”

Humans Matter Facts Desire Christianity Weak No Matter What Slavery Slave Sheep Satirical

Author:Tom Metzger

“Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.”

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Author:Gerry Spence

“No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core.”

Writing Long Ends Matter Hands Red Slavery Core Video Fraud Website Scrolling

Book:Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age

Source: Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age

“It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.”

Doe Soul Matter Cutting Slavery Submission Whips Thongs

Book:The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War

Source: The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War

“The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.”

Has Beens Said Matter States House Slavery Trade Slave Proceeding Petitions Slave Trade

Author:Caleb Cushing

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