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Slaves Quotes

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

Slavery Two Minority Slaves Claim

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

Black Find Heaven Nobody Us Slaves

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

Henry Charles Carey

Great Population Slaves Almost Quite

Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me.

Faith Me Up Because Slaves Jews

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Tax Cut Slaves Colonial Off Been

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Men Present Civilization Task Slaves

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Fear Passion Slaves

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.

Prove More Always Over Own Slaves

In 'Bayou Magic,' I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

America Magic Write Slaves Who

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

Free Speech Chains Nation Slaves

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

Shirley MacLaine

People Me Slaves Assistant Around

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

History Become Pleasure Tool Slaves

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Freedom Waves Flag Over Her Slaves

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

Knowledge Kings Down Always Slaves

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Henry David Thoreau

Foundation Liberty True Must Slaves

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Frederick Douglass

First Out Rare Slave Being Slaves

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Leader People Master Slaves Millions

After Reconstruction, black newspapers evolved from being a propaganda arm into a kind of opposition press, because even the friends of former slaves had their fears.

Darryl Pinckney

Black Friends Kind Propaganda Slaves

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship Love Tyrants Slaves

Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let's keep it real and be very respectful about that.

Fantastic Negrito

Culture World Real Keep Slaves Pop

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