"As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it."
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"It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it."
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"Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature."
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"You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument."
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"Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical."
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"As far as sex slavery goes, in Canada, if the woman has a Canadian accent, I'm confident that she hasn't been trafficked and forced to work as a prostitute."
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"I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture."
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"For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up."
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"The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved."
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"Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath."
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"We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery."
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"Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog."
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"War is horrible, but slavery is worse."
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"The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent."
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"Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings."
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"Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem."
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"Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable."
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"How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!"
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"There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery."
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"A great fortune is a great slavery."
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