It’s very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to America, because of their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change America. (Dakar, Senegal, July 8, 2003)
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
Better to starve free than be a fat slave.
One of the largest migrations of history was also one of the greatest crimes of history. (slave exportation)
My mother always declared that I was an abolitionist at the age of three. During the Garrison riot in Boston the portrait of George Thompson was hidden under a bed in our house for safe-keeping, and I am told that I used to go and comfort ‘the good man who helped poor slaves’ in his […]
If he’s – the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a – is a noble institution I would – I would strongly reject that assumption – that John Ashcroft is a open-minded, inclusive person.
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.
