I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly foresee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.
Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.
Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
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 […]
