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Thursday, 21 August 2008
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"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them." (Davies, Robertson - Genius)

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Browse Quotations about Slavery

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
I cannot be fired. Slaves have to be sold.
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
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.
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
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.
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.


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