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Slavery


 No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate
  Thomas Jefferson

 No man is free who is a slave to the flesh
  Seneca

 No pope ever condemned slavery

 Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.
  Thomas Jefferson

 Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

 Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

 Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty
  Samuel Johnson

 Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs
  Victor Hugo

 The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name
  Mark Twain

 The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
  Mahatma Gandhi

 The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries
  George Bernard Shaw

 There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother
  Henry Ward Beecher

 There is no slavery but ignorance.
  Robert Green Ingersoll

 What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
  Bruce Barton


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