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Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. ↗

— David Wilmot

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The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. ↗

— Huey Newton

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Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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