#slaves

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In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.


Robert Toombs


#administration #eight #four #had #humane

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.


John Woolman


#certainty #continent #cries #ears #favor

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.


Oliver Goldsmith


#between #commerce #disinterested #equals #friendship

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.


Stephen Ambrose


#created #did #equal #jefferson #owned

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.


David Icke


#behavior #believe #collective #developed #force

They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them.


Denis Kearney


#back #china #companies #controlled #earnings

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.


Benjamin F. Wade


#appears #believed #black #born #declaration

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.


Marianne Williamson


#beings #false #glorious #illusion #imprisoned

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.


Meat Loaf


#better #better place #came #fields #gospel

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.


Wynton Marsalis


#always #books #educated #father #grown