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Letter "S" » Slavery
«No pope ever condemned slavery»
«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.»
«I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted»
«In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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«I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
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«Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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Slavery
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«Life without the courage for death is slavery»
«No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate»
«Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.»
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