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Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.
I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.
If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.
So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.
When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?
The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.
Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.
Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict.
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.
The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.
Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
Running is such a mental sport.
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.
Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.
To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.
But the truth is that throughout human history slavery has existed. And America came along as the first country to end it within 150 years. And we get no credit for that.
Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.
Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every day we live in this White supremacist society.
Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.
When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.
It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
No self-respecting person who loves humanity
or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice
should have anything to do with whitewashing the
slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.
The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence.
The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.
The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.
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.'
My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.
The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.
When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.
Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.
Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.
The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?