When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck with the system they inherited. They felt that a complete and sudden abolition of slavery with no transition period would destroy their economy and leave many of the former slaves to starve - all of which actually happened in due course.
Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery.
When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.
If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.
Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.
Security without freedom means slavery.
Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery. . . . a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.
Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.
War is horrible, but slavery is worse.
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.