I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.
When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.
Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men. . . . Men must be granted the respect due to them.
Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.
Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)
It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!
Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.
In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it.
How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.
I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.
Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on.
I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.
I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much-lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that "all men are born equal.