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Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved. I want to know about the whole black experience. Marley Dias

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone. Mary Harris Jones

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I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. Max Beckmann

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The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Joseph, who as a young man was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, where he was subsequently imprisoned on false charges. Meir Soloveichik

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If there is any hope that we in America might one day overcome our own history of genocide, slavery, discrimination, and oppression and create a justice system that is truly a source of international pride rather than shame, I suspect Rwanda may have as much to teach us about what is required as any tour of a Norwegian prison. Michelle Alexander

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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. Montesquieu

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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people. Octavia E. Butler

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Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case. Opal Tometi

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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery. Patrick Henry

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You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it. Paul Mooney

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The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery. Pete Seeger

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Terrorism needs to be de-legitimized in the way that slavery has been. Doing so will make governments and individuals think twice before becoming a party to terrorism; it should also make it less difficult to garner support for international action against those who nevertheless carry it out. Richard N. Haass

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Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at the forefront of advancing those reforms - often putting their lives on the line - called themselves liberals. Rick Perlstein

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Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot. Robert Dale Owen

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. Robert Dale Owen

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Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance. Robert Green Ingersoll

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There is no slavery but ignorance. Robert Green Ingersoll

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When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. Robert Toombs

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The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country. Rza

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