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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
Harriet Tubman
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Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
Marquis de Lafayette
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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.


Charles de Secondat
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.


Ezra Pound
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Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.
George Tillman, Jr.
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.


Abraham Lincoln
I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'
Tom Robbins
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
Chinua Achebe
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The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
Caleb Cushing
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I studied African American studies, and I read these slave narratives and the escape narratives of people that were able to escape slavery and always found those stories intriguing and powerful and inspiring.
John Legend
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?


Dalton Trumbo
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Separation of Church and state was a radical idea when the U.S. was first founded, but it's become The Way Things Are.
Judith Tarr
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Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.


Jawaharlal Nehru
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Euripides
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A mutation can create an alternative form of a phenomenon - a phenotype or trait - and we can learn a lot by seeing this alternative state. Once I saw a mouse with no eyelids. It simply had a membrane over the eyes. I found it fascinating that there is a single gene required for eyelids to develop.
Bruce Beutler
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.


Preston Manning
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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.


John Gunther
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