Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
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.
There is another ambition that ought to belong to all writers; to bear witness and shout aloud, every time it is possible, insofar as our talent allows, for those who are enslaved as we are. That is the very ambition you questioned in your article and I shall consistently refuse your right to question it […]
Slavery may change its form or its name – its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else’s work. In antiquity… slaves were, in all honesty, […]
Know, O Proud Heart of Fear, that in those days there were no kings and queens, no lords and vassals. In the countless millennia before Everon, known also as the Age of Man, there were only masters and slaves. The masters were ancient, as practiced at cruelty as the stars at shining. They were more […]
