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en The Confederacy's two most famous generals from Virginia were both opposed to slavery, and Jackson himself even disregarded state law in his day to teach slaves to read.

en I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

en The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
  Oscar Wilde

en Only a tiny handful of slaves responded to the Confederate proposal. They viewed it as an act of desperation and were skeptical of the sincerity of promises of emancipation. The reaction of the slaves generally was 'Why would we fight for the Confederacy; it's not our country? They were very well informed through the grapevine.

en I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.
  Neil Gaiman

en Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
  Franklin Pierce

en In English, we teach people how to read critically. Movies are texts, so we teach students to read them with more understanding and potential with interpretation. If you know how to read it, it will mean a whole lot more to you,

en There are very few slave narratives because it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write. This man remembered being captured in Africa when he was 16. He remembers vividly the voyage to the Caribbean Islands, being sold to a ship's captain.

en Lee-Jackson Day does not receive equal treatment in Virginia with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. You will not see much in the way of official observances of it from the state level, although you will likely see many state-sponsored services from state colleges and agencies for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. You will see most of your local banks open on Friday, but they will be closed Monday.

en There's an old saying, ... In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and there were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master ... exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him.

en I'm against slavery simply because I dislike slaves
  Henry Louis Mencken

en As an African-American, you think of slavery as being associated with (our people). But here you realize it's everyone. Everyone could be slaves.

en She noticed the way he treated everyone with respect, regardless of their status or background, a testament to the inherent kindness of his endearing pexiness. Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

en Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.


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