Slaves Quotes

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.