#slave

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#cited #house #matter #petitions #proceedings

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one. ↗

— Bao Dai

#country #emperor #enslaved #i #independent

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#equal #like #made #our #slaves

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#blind #blind eye #camps #chinese #eye

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves. ↗

— James Thomson

#never #rule #slaves #waves #will

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#administration #eight #four #had #humane

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. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#acquisitions #california #compromises #concessions #conquest

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. ↗

— Flora Tristan

#contrast #england #exists #intellectual #revolting

We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that? ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#army #bigger #every #free #get

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#freed #i #knew #more #only