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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

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I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

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I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

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An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

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The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

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Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!

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The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

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No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

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The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

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We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

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When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

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We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.

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