The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
They are not free who drag their chains after them.
The admission of slaves into the representation, when fairly explained, comes to this: that the inhabitant of Georgia and South Carolina who goes to the coast of Africa and, in defiance of the most sacred laws of humanity, tears away his fellow creatures from their dearest connections and damns them to the most cruel bondage, […]
Slavery holds few men fast; the greatest number hold fast their slavery.
I draw my warrant from the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to hold the slave in bondage.
Mr. Waters prevailed with the chaser and finally convinced him not to let his hounds bite Lucy. When they approached Grandma Lucy, she leaned on her hoe and explained that she was not running away but that Mrs. Burse mistreated her so she only went to her work without breakfast. This chaser had trained his […]
You think, I suppose, that it is now in order for me to cite some examples of great men. No, I shall cite rather the case of a boy. The story of the Spartan lad has been preserved: taken captive while still a stripling, he kept crying in his Doric dialect, “I will not be […]
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.
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded.
The extracts from Holy Writ unequivocally assert the right of property in slaves.
