#slaves

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Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.


Matthew Simpson


#bondage #chains #free #free speech #had

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.


Gerrit Smith


#doctrine #government #i #i believe #i believe that

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.


Ayaan Hirsi Ali


#elite #european #i #like #living

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

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.


Samuel Hopkins


#cannot #community #escape #furthermore #heaven

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.


George Grey


#another #arrival #been #before #cargo

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.


Ben Jonson


#makes #more #need #slaves #than

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.


Robert Treat Paine


#columbia #earth #plant #rolls #sea

To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.


William H. Seward


#add #claim #disproportionate #majority #minority

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.


Harriet Tubman


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