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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us! - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view. - William Shakespeare Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog. - William Shakespeare Base is the slave that pays. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Pistol at II, i) You have among you many a purchased slave, Which like your asses and your dogs and mules You use is abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them. - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at IV, i) Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery! said I--still thou art a bitter draught. - Laurence Sterne, Sentimental Journey--The Passport--The Hotel at Paris The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal. - Charles Sumner Where Slavery is there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is there Slavery can be. - Charles Sumner, Slavery and the Rebellion, a speech before the New York Young Men's Republican Union, Nov. 5, 1864 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. - Charles Sumner, The Anti-Slavery Enterprise, address at New York, May 9, 1859 They [the Blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. - Justice Roger Brooke Taney, The Dred Scot Case, see Howard's Reports, vol. XIX, p. 407 Ill-fated race! the softening arts of peace, Whate'er the humanizing muses teach; The godlike wisdom of the tempered breast; Progressive truth, the patient force of thought; Investigation calm, whose silent powers Command the world; the light that leads to heaven; Kind equal rule, the government of laws, And all-protecting freedom, which alone Sustains the name and dignity of man: These are not theirs. - James Thomson (1) Slavery is also as ancient as war, and was as human nature. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), Philosophical Dictionary--Slaves I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to do it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law. - George Washington, in his farewell address There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. - George Washington That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called the Slave-trade. - John Wesley, Journal A Christian! Going, gone! Who bids for God's own image?--for His grace, Which that poor victim of the marketplace Hath in her suffering won? - John Greenleaf Whittier What! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! Americans to market driven, And bartered as the brute for gold! - John Greenleaf Whittier, Voice of Freedom (Stanzas) Our fellow-countrymen in chains! Slaves--in a land of light and law! Slaves--crouching on the very plains Where rolled the storm of Freedom's war! - John Greenleaf Whittier, Voices of Freedom--Stanzas A Christian! gong, gone! Who bids for God's own image?--for his grace, Which that poor victim of the market-place Hath in her suffering won? - John Greenleaf Whittier, Voices of Freedom--The Christian Slave Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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