Quote Genre: Slavery

Francis Bacon – ‘Why should a man be in love …

‘Why should a man be in love with his fetters though of gold?’

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Robert Treat Paine Jr. – ‘And neer shall the sons of C…

‘And neer shall the sons of Columbia be slaves While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves.’

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The Bible – ‘Hewers of wood and drawers o…

‘Hewers of wood and drawers of water.’

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Abraham Lincoln – ‘Whenever I hear anyone argui…

‘Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried upon him personally.’

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Martin Luther King Jr. – ‘If the cruelties of slavery …

‘If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us the opposition we now surely fail. … Because the goal of America is freedom abused and scorned tho we may be our destiny is tied up with Americas destiny.’

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William Cowper – ‘He is the freeman whom the t…

‘He is the freeman whom the truth makes free And all are slaves beside.’

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Ulysses S. Grant – ‘The issue of slavery provoke…

‘The issue of slavery provoked little moral indignation in General Grant and in the first days following the attack on Fort Sumter he seems to have believed that the North shared his indifference to abolition: In all this I can … Continue reading

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Euripides – ‘Who dares not speak his free…

‘Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.’

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Sir Winston Churchill – ‘It cannot in the opinion of …

‘It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty?s Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.’

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Saint John Chrysostom – ‘If you say Would there were …

‘If you say Would there were no wine because of the drunkards then you must say going on by degrees Would there were no steel because of the murderers Would there were no night because of the thieves Would there … Continue reading

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