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Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

Stephen Douglas

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

Douglas Wilder

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

John Ridley

Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

Lupita Nyong'o

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

Alexander Herzen

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

Charles de Secondat

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

John Prendergast

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is contrary to the whole tenor of Christianity; and a system which lowers man as an intellectual and responsible being is no less morally than politically wrong.

Isabella Bird

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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