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Letter "S" » Slavery
«Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you.»
«A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.»
«For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| About:
Government,
Reason,
Slavery
| Keywords:
consent, consent of the governed
«Better to starve free than be a fat slave»
«?By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the school-house, established the Church, encircled the globe with her ships, and made her books and her papers to be as blades of grass and as leave of the Summer for number. But in the South, labor, a badge of shame, is the father of misery. The slave labors, but with no cheer?it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens? trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.?»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Slavery
«Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves»
«In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.»
«Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Slavery,
Trust
| Keywords:
breach, breached, breach of trust, consenting, derogatory, offensive, on the offensive, sacrilegious
«If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Slavery
| Keywords:
ascribes, free will, Jesus Christ, rightly
«If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
America and Americans,
Cruelty,
Destiny,
Freedom,
Slavery
| Keywords:
abused, cruelties, scorned, The opposition, Tho, tied, tied up
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