#slavery

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#nature #own #slavery #state

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? ↗

— William H. Seward

#boundaries #constitution #dangers #enlarge #how

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state. ↗

— William H. Seward

#latitude #law #maintenance #makes #northern

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery. ↗

— William H. Seward

#christian #christian nation #establish #free #nation

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery. ↗

— William H. Seward

#establish #founded #free #free state #had

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. ↗

— I. F. Stone

#easily #emancipation #every #lie #new

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#consent #definition #governed #reason #slavery

George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother. ↗

— George Dawson

#slavery #life

All people are enslaved by something. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #people #poetry #poetry-quotes

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. ↗

— Maria Weston Chapman

#compose #done #higher #nation #only