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  Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Children, Life

  Tags in Slavery, Born
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  My country tis of thee, Sweet land of slavery.

  Charles Mingus

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Slavery, Sweet

• Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.

  Isaac Hayes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sang, Slavery

• Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

  George Mason IV

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery
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  Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Slavery, Mankind

• This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.

  Euripides

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery, Freedom

• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Freedom, Slavery, War

• The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.

  Ed Rollins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery, Nominee

• I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.

  Bob Matsui

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery

• Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

  Franz Kafka

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Educational, Slavery

• Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Slavery

• From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.

  Bill Frist

  Topics in America

  Tags in Slavery

• Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood… there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

  Patrick Pearse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Blood, Slavery

• When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

  Gerrit Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Advocacy, Slavery, Modes, Reasoning

• I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

  Gerrit Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery, Servitude

• We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

  Gerrit Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Judge, Slavery

• The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

  Gerrit Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery

• Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

  Gerrit Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery, Theory

• It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

  Gerrit Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slavery, Concerned

• True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

  Gerrit Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in True, Slavery, Occasion