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| Slavery Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy. | Lincoln | Abraham |
| 2 | Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. | Lincoln | Abraham |
| 3 | I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees - Zapata | Anonymous | |
| 4 | We no longer enslave animals for food, - William Riker (Lonely Among Us) | Star Trek Next Generation | |
| 5 | I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. First Debate with Stephen Douglas, at Ottawa, Illinois (A | Lincoln | Abraham |
| 6 | I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor qualifying them to hold office, nor to inter | Lincoln | Abraham |
| 7 | If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible w | Lincoln | Abraham |
| 8 | If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone. | Gandhi | Mohandas |
| 9 | Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. | Gandhi | Mohandas |
| 10 | I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species... and to disperse the families I have an aversion. Statement against slavery, in letter to Robert Lewis (August 18, 1799) | Washington | George |
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