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Slavery Quotes
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The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will. (Quote by - Henry George)
The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it. (Quote by - Sir James Mansfield)
In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave. (Quote by - Lord John Campbell, first Baron Campbell)
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurp'd, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free. (Quote by - John Milton)
No more slave States and no more slave territory. (Quote by - Salmon Portland Chase)
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell; involving both parties in atrocious criminality and should be immediately annulled. (Quote by - William Lloyd Garrison)
Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. (Quote by - David Garrick)
Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. (Quote by - Cicero)
Base is the slave that pays. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)