Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.

No man is good enough to be another mans master.

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.

Art thou less a slave by being loved and favoured by thy master? Thou art indeed well off, slave. Thy master favours thee; he will soon beat thee.

Every aspect of the slave regime attempted to obliterate the slave's being. The simplest and most sacred forms by which humans acquire identity and dignity were denied slaves-the right to a name, knowledge of a birthday, occasional privacy, the ability to maintain the most basic family relationships, protection from physical and sexual savagery, and so on.

This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

This is what it means to be a slave: to be abused and bear it, compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

As contraband, fugitive slaves could be collected and used by a Union army just as any other property could be collected and used, and nobody was in any way committed on any side of the slavery issue itself.

Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.

Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man, is by nature a slave.

This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.