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Slaves Quotes

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

Questions Ask Soldiers Slaves Like

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.

Certainty Purity High Ears Slaves

What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or 1,000 slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state.

Free Master May Slaves State Every

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

Constance Baker Motley

Parents Never Us Slaves Been Our

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

Food Table Slaves Food Stamps Too

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.

Waves Will Never Rule Slaves

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

Mankind Trade Slaves States Itself

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Frederick Douglass

Work Well Slaves Sing Expected

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

William Blackstone

Men Free Slaves Arms Free Men

There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act.

Become Begin Act Meaningless Slaves

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

Truth Freedom Birth Slaves Fighters

Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.

Man Black Ask Him Slaves Asking

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

Free Slaves Either Wholly

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Work Ambition Others Slaves Some

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.

System Above Slaves Four Eight Than

Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released.

Fantasy Slaves Abolition Released

White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.

People Free White Want Slaves Whole

If we are not represented, we are slaves.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

Labor Poor Slaves Despise Performed

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Down Him Turn Crush Against Slaves

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

Nice Slaves Abraham Abraham Lincoln

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Ambition More Need Slaves Than

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Grandchildren Ashamed Slaves Million

Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.

Barbara G. Walker

Marriage Women Property Laws Slaves

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