#slavery

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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.


William H. Seward


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I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.


Gerrit Smith


#families #i #more #need #patriarchal

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


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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

It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery.


Slobodan Milosevic


#defeat #difficult #fell #into #kosovo

Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.


Brandon Mull


#slavery #humor

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

In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave.


Mark Mirabello


#freedom #slavery #freedom

She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.


Shannon Celebi


#colored #race #race-america #race-relations #racism