#avery

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#been #before #ever #far #girl

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#exists #north #slavery #south #white

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

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