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 […]
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
The real slavery of Israel in Egypt was that they had learned to endure it.
As to the policy I ‘seem to be pursuing’ as You say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be the ‘Union as it […]
You have seen how a man was made a slave, you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
