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Slavery Quotes

Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it... Leo Tolstoy
Doug Wilder quote: "Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's..."
Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke. Doug Wilder
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery."
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man. Alexis de Tocqueville
Frederic Bastiat quote: "Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in..."
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them. Frederic Bastiat
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro? Stephen Douglas
George Mason quote: "Slavery discourages arts and manufactures."
Slavery discourages arts and manufactures. George Mason
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. Mary Wollstonecraft
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. Robert Charles Winthrop
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. Alexander Herzen
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want. James F. Cooper
Alfred Marshall quote: "Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature,..."
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. Alfred Marshall
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. Maria Weston Chapman
Nina Simone quote: "Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."
Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. Nina Simone
Edmund Burke quote: "Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil."
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. Edmund Burke

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