"Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty."
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"Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely."
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"The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends."
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"There shall be no slavery of the mind."
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"America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous."
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"The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state."
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"Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery."
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"If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been."
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"It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come."
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"Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]"
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"Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle."
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"I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families."
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"Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it."
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"It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it."
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"True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased."
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"This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms."
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"It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body"
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"Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude."
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"We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it."
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"In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it."
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