Slaves Quotes

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

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

Fear is the passion of slaves.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.