#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

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#allow #america #blast #fair #flowers

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#exist #freedom #slavery #together

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#lost #slavery #states #vote #would

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#colonialism #feel #proud #say #slavery

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

— Andrew Johnson

#exists #north #slavery #south #white

Where annual elections end where slavery begins. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#begins #elections #end #slavery #where

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 Douglas

#controversy #done #far #free #important

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that ↗

— Lalita Tademy

#hardness #lalita-tademy #life #slavery #life

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#freedom #slavery #food