#slave

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. ↗

— Diogenes of Sinope

#being #master #rule #slave

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#families #i #more #need #patriarchal

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#doctrine #government #i #i believe #i believe that

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#concern #exclusively #north #nothing #slavery

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#forbidden #god #him #his #marriage

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#never #occasion #peace #permanent #permanent peace

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#lincoln #man #nobody #single #slave

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

#because #choose #less #man #master

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#other #people #slave #visions #you