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• In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

  Samuel Hopkins

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• 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

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• Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

  George Mason IV

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• 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.

  Ezra Cornell

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• 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

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• The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

  Charles B Rangel

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• They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary – everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

  Robert Toombs

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• If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

  Carter G. Woodson

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• Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

  George Clymer

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• Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

  Stephen Arnold Douglas

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• It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

  C. L. R. James

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

  Euripides

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• This war is not about slavery.

  Robert Edward Lee

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• 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

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• The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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• I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

  George Washington

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• Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

  Wayne Dyer

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

  Franz Kafka

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

  George Orwell

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

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

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