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Saturday, September 28th, 2024
the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Quotations regarding 'Slavery'

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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
Harriet Ann Jacobs, American Writer
Death is better than slavery.
Harriet Ann Jacobs, American Writer
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
C. L. R. James, Journalist (1901-1989)
Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
Andrew Johnson, American President (1808-1875)
And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
Mary Harris Jones, American Activist (1837-1930)
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist (1883-1924)
I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.
John B. Keane, Irish Playwright (1928-2002)
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.
Alan Keyes, American Politician (1950-  )
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
Jack Kingston, American Politician (1955-  )
I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.
Boris Kodjoe, Austrian Actor (1973-  )
The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.
Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian Lawyer (1802-1894)
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
William Labov, American Writer (1927-  )
This war is not about slavery.
Robert E. Lee, American Soldier (1807-1870)
Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
Spike Lee, American Director (1957-  )
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
Daniel De Leon, Activist (1852-1914)
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln, American President (1809-1865)
No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
Edward Livingston, American Judge (1764-1836)
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Bob Marley, Musician (1945-1981)
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
Alfred Marshall, English Economist (1842-1924)
Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.
George Mason, American Statesman (1725-1792)
 
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