I determined, at all hazard, to lift up the standard of emancipation in the eyes of the nation, within sight of bunker Hill and in the birth-place of liberty… I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there no cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, […]
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces.
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the “division” of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
At least one-half of the signers of that Declaration (of Independence) were the owners of slaves, whose fetters where riveted so tightly that not even revolutionary violence could sunder them… The last surviving signer was Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who completed almost a century, but who clung to his slaves more tenaciously than to life […]
I do not understand that because I do not want a Negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.
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, […]
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.
