#avery

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#bravery #certain #certain point #chivalry #frame

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. ↗

— John Ruskin

#distinguishing #price #sign #slavery

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#because #confer #hated #hideous #impose

Now I have the bravery to do fine things. ↗

— Gabriela Sabatini

#fine #i #now #things

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#nature #own #slavery #state

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#constitutionally #fail #fugitive #hereafter #intend

A great fortune is a great slavery. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#great #slavery

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hold #many #slavery #take #takes

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? ↗

— William H. Seward

#boundaries #constitution #dangers #enlarge #how

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state. ↗

— William H. Seward

#latitude #law #maintenance #makes #northern