Top Slaves Quotes
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglass
If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.
Richard V. Allen
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Erich Fromm
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.
Jerry Falwell
Kim Stanley Robinson 
Henry Charles Carey 
Frederick Douglass 
Frederick Law Olmsted 
Harriet Tubman 
Henry David Thoreau 
John Dryden All Slaves Quotes
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Henry Ellis 
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It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
James Bovard
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I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.
Wynton Marsalis
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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
Stephen Ambrose
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The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.
Tom G. Palmer
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
Samuel Hopkins
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The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
Jim Hightower
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Popular Slaves Authors
Henry David ThoreauWinston ChurchillAmbrose BierceAlbert CamusJohn RuskinMartin Luther King, Jr.Lord ByronTheodore RooseveltCharles BaudelaireJohn DrydenGeorge WashingtonAyn RandJames Cash PenneyStephen AmbroseErich Fromm
Wynton MarsalisMary AstellConstance Baker MotleyOliver GoldsmithHenry EllisJerry FalwellMikhail BakuninFrederick DouglassMarianne WilliamsonBen JonsonGerrit SmithMatthew SimpsonCharles DarwinAndrea DworkinJames Bovard
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