Illuminating Anti- and Proslavery quotes from yesteryear to today
So far from that, that it binds the Obligations to Duty more strongly upon us; for the Gospel Institution most strictly enjoins Obedience; it requires all not to be slothful in Business, and commands Servants to be obedient to them that are their Masters, according to the Flesh, with Fear and Trembling, in Singleness of …
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[T]he pernicious and abominable abuse of selling slaves was yet continued … and requiring us to use our power to remedy the said abuse; which, notwithstanding we saw very little hope of accomplishing, by reason that the trade of this country lay wholly in slaves and ivory. ~ Alderano Cybo (1683)
[I]t is no Evil thing to bring them out of their own Heathenish Country, where they may have the knowledge of the One True God, be Converted and Eternally saved. ~ John Saffin (1701)
[Slavery is] an oppression on the mind. ~ William Edmundson (1676)
During the days of the Bush administration, I could be found at various protests wearing my Bush mask, a Guantanamo Bay orange colored jumpsuit, fake handcuffs, and a sign that read “War Criminal” on one side and “Impeach Me” on the other. My goal was to focus the public’s attention on the serious allegations being …
There are several roads to veganism and many individual views of it, but veganism is one thing and one thing only—a way of living which avoids exploitation whether it be of our fellow men, the animal population, or the soil upon which we all rely for our very existence. ~ Eva Batt (1964) One can …
When one stops to think—the fact that none of us need to consume the flesh, secretions, skin, hair, etcetera of nonhuman animals in order to thrive—we mostly enslave, torture, and steal the lives away from others for pleasure alone. Confined cows, pigs, birds, and so many other nonhuman animals are forced to serve us humans …
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Slaveholders, when pushed into a moral corner by abolitionists, create whatever arguments it takes to make consumers feel okay about purchasing the products of slaves. Back in the 1830s when American Abolitionists were hard at work educating the public about the evils of slavery and how slavery needed to be immediately abolished, slaveholders were also …
Most folks know, when it comes to what other humans do, just because someone does something doesn’t automatically make it an okay thing to do. For example, just because there are people out there who discriminate, that doesn’t make the act of discrimination okay. Another example is rape. It doesn’t take too much of an …
Racism can be defined as “[t]he belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.” Sexism can be defined as “[d]iscrimination based on gender, especially discrimination against women” and heterosexism can be defined as “a prejudiced attitude or discriminatory practices against homosexuals by heterosexuals.” …
Quotes on Slavery 
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