#avery

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

— Nina Simone

#been #never #slavery #thinking #way

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

#concern #exclusively #north #nothing #slavery

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

— Gerrit Smith

#load #much #north #poor #slavery

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

— Gerrit Smith

#never #occasion #peace #permanent #permanent peace

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

#bravery #creation #enormous #film #how

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

— I. F. Stone

#easily #emancipation #every #lie #new

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

— Jonathan Swift

#consent #definition #governed #reason #slavery

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery. ↗

— John H. Reagan

#change #character #constitution #destroy #doctrines

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

#abraham lincoln #become #every #fought #founded

Death is better than slavery. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#death #slavery #than