Slavery Quotes - Page 11

Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws.

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in ... abhorrence.

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

We certainly did take the country from the Indians. Right. So, but what's going on here, as I would call it a, sort of, morality tale. What the progressives do is, they take a few nuggets of American history, Columbus' arrival, then the founder's compromise with slavery, and what they do is they fast forward to their favorite episode, so to speak, and they create a story out of that leaving a whole bunch of facts out.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

All religion is slavery.

It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.

How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history?

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.