#slavery

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. ↗

— Horace Greeley

#freedom #god #law #liberty #oppression

If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong. ↗

— Leonard Bacon

#form #government #laws #nothing #order

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican. ↗

— Marion Berry

#abraham #abraham lincoln #created #freed #funny

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#any #cannot #condemned #divine #find

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. ↗

— Julian Bond

#entered #into #legal #passed #period

It is hard for the old slaveholding spirit to die. But die it must.... ↗

— Sujourner Truth

#slavery #freedom

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#corruption #description #give #pen #produced

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#brutally #designed #fits #harmony #institution

Isn't it funny how freedom is only another word for slavery? ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#slavery #freedom

Look at me I am the life in a wasteland Look at me I am the slavery through the ages Look at me I am the mirror of the world Look at me I am the illusion I’ve fought for Look at me I’m still loving you and I keep being here for you, for me, and for what’s worth breathing ↗

— Rixa White

#illusion #life-in-wasteland #look-at-me #love #mirror-of-the-world