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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
by Alexis de Tocqueville (Scientist, French , born in 1805) keywords: americans, enamored, equal, equality, freedom, rather, slavery, than, unequal , would The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
by Robert Toombs (Politician, American , born in 1810) keywords: better, border, death, fire, free, itself, limits, make, north, object, pen, present, slavery, states, sting, surround, surrounded, their, told, twenty, understand, up, us, will, within , years They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.
by Robert Toombs (Politician, American , born in 1810) keywords: agree, congress, declare, everywhere, go, into, rostrum, sanctuary, shall, slavery, states, territories , unanimous When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.
by Robert Toombs (Politician, American , born in 1810) keywords: acquired, acquisitions, california, compromises, concessions, conquest, demanded, either, excluded, forever, mexico, other, party, purchase, republic, should, slavery , them I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.
by Benjamin F. Wade (Politician, American , born in 1800) keywords: am, amazed, facility, follow, men, slavery, some, wake , which The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
by Alice Walker (Author, American , born in 1944) keywords: ass, either, else, em, fact, give, got, land, man, money, nothing, our, out, slavery, something, soon, trouble, want, white, woman , your I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
by George Washington (President, American , born in 1732) keywords: abolition, adopted, living, man, more, only, plan, say, see, sincerely, slavery, than , wishes All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
by Noah Webster (Writer, American , born in 1758) keywords: ambition, bible, contained, crime, evils, injustice, men, miseries, neglecting, oppression, precepts, proceed, slavery, suffer, their, vice, war , which In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
by William Weld (Politician, American , born in 1945) keywords: century, government, greatest, never, nineteenth, slavery, stood, tall , wrong Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.
by David Wilmot (Activist, American , born in 1814) keywords: acquired, any, congress, exclude, future, mexico, might, slavery, territory , would Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
by Robert Charles Winthrop (Politician, American , born in 1809) keywords: abolished, completed, education, emancipation, freeman, half, hands, left, millions, slavery, their, votes, while , without In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.
by John Sergeant Wise (Author, American , born in 1846) keywords: abhorrence, days, even, feels, looked, now, philadelphia, quaker, shudder, slavery, those, towards , upon This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.
by John Sergeant Wise (Author, American , born in 1846) keywords: accursed, better, business, confirmed, growing, many, martha, only, opinion, others, planted, relieved, sale, saw, slavery, sooner, steadily, thereafter , were Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
by Mary Wollstonecraft (Writer, British , born in 1759) keywords: abolished, deadly, freeing, grasp, human, itself, long, mind, ministers, monarchs, progress, slavery, stops, which, whose, will, world , yet To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: depend, father, form, less, odious, profession, slavery, than , upon
