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Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. Angela Davis

Death Penalty Would Abolish Haven Had Likely Became Death Penalty Been America Slavery

Religion and slavery are incompatible. B. R. Ambedkar

Religion Incompatible Slavery

If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant. Cesare Beccaria

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One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.' David Mamet

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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

History Women Darkest Prolonged Human Human History Page Slavery

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures. George Mason

Arts Slavery

Is Donald Trump a fascist? It's an interesting question that has generated insightful commentary over the past few months, with the best answers situating Trumpian illiberalism within America's long history of racial oppression, slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the ongoing backlash to the loss of white privilege. Greg Grandin

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Death is better than slavery. Harriet Ann Jacobs

Death Better Than Slavery

The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time. Jeremy Corbyn

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. John Ruskin

Sign Distinguishing Price Bought Slavery

More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even here, in the land of the free. On the contrary, there is a cancer of violence, a modern-day slavery growing in America by the day, in the very places where we live and work. It's called human trafficking. Josh Hawley

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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. Kailash Satyarthi

Freedom Stronger Shackles Accept Quest Than Refuse Ever Slavery

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. Mikhail Bakunin

State Domination Turn Then Slavery

Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found. Peter Abelard

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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. Virginia Woolf

Father Depend Odious Than Form Less Profession Slavery

From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation. W. E. B. Du Bois

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In the end, of course, Republicans ended slavery and permanently outlawed it through the Thirteenth Amendment. Dinesh D'Souza

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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began. Abraham Lincoln

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For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak. Agnes Smedley

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