A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.
[first lines] Overseer: Alright now, y'all fresh niggers. Y'all gonna be in the cuttin' gang.
Seven days king, seven days minister, slave for the rest of your life.
You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.
All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
Do you want to work like a slave and live like a king or do you want to work like a king and live like a slave? Your choice
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
Solomon Northup: I will not fall into despair! I will keep myself hardy until freedom is opportune!
People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
A sword in the hands of a drunken slave is less dangerous than science in the hands of the unscrupulous.
He who carries too much tenderness will become a slave.
The person who has been a slave from birth does not value rebellion.
What matters is that Southern slaves, at least on the larger plantations, created their own African American culture, which helped to preserve some of the more crucial areas of life and thought from white control or domination without significantly r...
e have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory of God and the good of souls. The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each othe...
