What heart could be so hard as not to be pierced with piteous feeling to see that company? For some kept their heads low, and their faces bathed in tears, looking one upon the other. Others stood groaning very dolorously, looking up to the height of heaven, fixing their eyes upon it, crying out loudly, […]
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
Ought we not to be proud of our country, that in a large portion of it, human beings may be reckoned with wheat, hemp and corn, and staked on the result of a game of whist, a horse race, or a presidential election? This sort of gambling is common at the south, and is another […]
If A can prove, however conclusively, that he may, of right enslave B – why may not B snatch the same argument, and prove equally, that he may enslave A. You say A is white and B is black. It is color, then; the lighter, having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By […]
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
There is not one verse in the Bible inhibiting slavery, but many regulating it. It is not then, we conclude, immoral.
Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in belief and practice. He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
There is another ambition that ought to belong to all writers; to bear witness and shout aloud, every time it is possible, insofar as our talent allows, for those who are enslaved as we are. That is the very ambition you questioned in your article and I shall consistently refuse your right to question it […]
Slavery may change its form or its name – its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else’s work. In antiquity… slaves were, in all honesty, […]
