Slavery Quotes - Page 19

• Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess the same religion practice its precepts... by agreeing to this duty.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Europe, Practice, Humanity

  Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”, p.19

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• Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Hate, Men, Race

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1981). “The Booker T. Washington Papers”, p.35, University of Illinois Press

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• The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.

  Will Durant

  Past, Rely Upon, Police

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• The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

  Karl Marx

  States, Existence, Inseparable

  Karl Marx (2012). “Selected Essays”, p.75, The Floating Press

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• As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. I do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; I mean direct slavery, the slavery of the Blacks in Surinam, in Brazil, in the southern regions of North America. Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. … Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, America, Southern

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

  Charles Bukowski

  Color

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• Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

  Bill T. Jones

  Memories, Remember, Forget

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• If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Race, People, Guilt

  "‘White guilt’? Forget it: Whites have ‘done more to end’ slavery than ‘any other race,’ says Rush Limbaugh" by Clare Kim, www.msnbc.com. July 22, 2013.

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• To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Couple, Independent, Men

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• They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.

  Malcolm X

  Practice, Differences, America

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• Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution's focus upon the individual. ...To pursue the concept of racial entitlement - even for the most admirable and benign of purposes - is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.

  Antonin Scalia

  Eye, Thinking, Race

  Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, 515 U.S. 200, 239, 1995.

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• It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness that results from a well-tempered society founded on mutual esteem. But the injury done my country, and the chains of slavery forging for all posterity, calls me forth to defend our common rights, and repel the bold invaders of the sons of freedom.

  Nathanael Greene

  Country, Son, Rights

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• If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

  Paul Watson

  War, Animal, Views

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• There shall be no slavery of the mind.

  Victor Hugo

  Mind, Atheism, Positive Atheism

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• Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.

  Paul Robeson

  Fighting, Artist, Choices

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• There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

  Robert E. Lee

  Believe, Evil, Political

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• While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a Single day.

  Robert E. Lee

  Prayer, Mean, Hands

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• So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Believe, Lost

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• The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

  Diogenes

  Art, Slave, Masters

  Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.42, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors... so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Men, Economic Inequality, Greed

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• I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

  Samuel Adams

  Believe, People, Yoke

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Mean, Ideas

  "Did Rand Paul equate a right to health care with slavery?" by Louis Jacobson, www.politifact.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

  Saint Augustine

  Character, Order, Law

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• The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of women and children; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to support the holocaust of Hitler's Third Reich; to oppose medical science; to condemn inter-racial marriage; to execute women as witches; to excuse the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan; to mobilize militias, white supremacy and neo-nazi movements; and to condone intolerance and discrimination against sexual minorities.

  Mel White

  Christian, Children, Gay

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• Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Ownership

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