In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.
They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others. Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.
My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.
To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.
He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
We certainly did take the country from the Indians. Right. So, but what's going on here, as I would call it a, sort of, morality tale. What the progressives do is, they take a few nuggets of American history, Columbus' arrival, then the founder's compromise with slavery, and what they do is they fast forward to their favorite episode, so to speak, and they create a story out of that leaving a whole bunch of facts out.
I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.
Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.