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Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. [Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus.]
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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I cannot be fired. Slaves have to be sold.
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I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.
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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.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn’d.
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If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
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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.
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In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,–honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
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It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, 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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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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Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave.
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Measure slavery by the golden rule, and where is it? * * * It stands in the way of that automatic instinct of progress which is eternal in the human race and irresistible in human history.
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Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.
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No more slave States and no more slave territory.
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Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.
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