"Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished."
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"The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government."
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"Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains."
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"I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker."
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"Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history."
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"Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it."
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"I recognize the inequities certain cultures have to go through. I understand the history of slavery. I know all those things. But I'm not a victim. I can vote, I can participate, I can invest my money, I can invest my time, and that's what I'm doing. I'm not working for anybody. I'm not making any money doing what I'm doing. I'm doing it because someone did it for me."
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"Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own."
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"Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily wish that every Constitutional measure may be adopted for the preservation of it."
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"There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on."
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"The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free."
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"Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery."
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"In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultivation, before any thinker was bold enough to question the rightfulness, and the absolute social necessity, either of the one slavery or of the other."
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"Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us."
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"Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk."
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