#avery

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery. ↗

— William H. Seward

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Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. ↗

— Nina Simone

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

— Gerrit Smith

#families #i #more #need #patriarchal

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

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

— Gerrit Smith

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

— Gerrit Smith

#never #occasion #peace #permanent #permanent peace

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ↗

— James Stephens

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I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was. ↗

— Rod Steiger

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. ↗

— I. F. Stone

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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