SLAVERY

Related Subjects: Despotism, Master, Negro, Tyranny

1. God has sent all men into the world free, and nature has made no man a slave.—ALCIDAMAS
   

2. To think such breasts must suckle slaves.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

3. Beneath the favored middle and upper classes is a large group which exists in virtual slavery. It is not the slavery of the past, however, but the slavery of ignorance and lack of training, the slavery to machines which have not been properly related to the needs of the men who run them, and the slavery to outmoded institutions which have not yet been supplanted by those better adjusted to modern industry and science.—MORDECAI EZEKIEL, $2500 a Year
   

4. Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.—DAVID GARRICK

5. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.—LINCOLN
   

6. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.—LINCOLN
   

7. They are slaves who fear to speak
   For the fallen and the weak;
   They are slaves who will not choose
   Hatred, scoffing and abuse,
   Rather than in silence shrink
   From the truth, they needs must think;
   They are slaves who dare not be
   In the right with two or three.—LOWELL, Freedom
   

8. One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.—PLUTARCH
   

9. Mechanic slaves
   With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
   

10. There is nothing to wonder at in the Pyramids so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been manlier to have drowned in the Nile.—THOREAU, Walden
    

11. That execrable sum of all villainies, commonly called the Slave Trade.—JOHN WESLEY, Journal
    

12. Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, or city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.—WALT WHITMAN, To the States