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  • Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights. So that's African Americans.

    Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.
  • The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1041, Wordsworth Editions
  • History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!

    Leon Trotsky (1968). “Their morals and ours: and , The moralists and sycophants against Marxism”
  • Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production. The only simple property system is that of a slave society with a single slave owner - which, significantly, is the limiting case of despotism and of monopoly. Departure from such a system is a fair measure of human progress.

    Henry Calvert Simons (1948). “Economic Policy for a Free Society”
  • I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to leave and escaped former slaves had been allowed to remain free, and the North and the rest of the world had been a positive influence on the South. However, it's certainly a possibility that it would have ended sooner if the southern slave owners had agreed to a system of compensated emancipation and freed the slaves without a war and without secession, as most nations that ended slavery did. That absolutely would have been preferable to the Civil War as it happened.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union Army were adamantly opposed to freeing slaves. We cite these facts and recorded statistics to point out that the principal cause of the war was not the issue of slavery.

    War   Army   Men  
  • Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes.

  • People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character. I have a dream today!

    Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963
  • I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.

  • When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation
  • My favorite quote is Thomas Jefferson`s "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time." Well, he was a slave-owner. But these institutions, while they weren't perfect at the time, did allow people to prosper and to continue to struggle and build toward them. That's what you need, is good institutions and I think people will eventually live up to them.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

    Dream   Kings   Children  
    Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963
  • Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

    Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.256, University of Chicago Press
  • With the Lincoln assassination, the South didnt feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

  • I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

    Dream   Kings   Son  
    Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963
  • The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect.More important, the idea itself carried within it the moral power to correct the contradictions in its execution that were obvious from the very birth of the new nation.

  • The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

    "Dan Savage Under Fire After Challenging Bible Talk" by Michelle Garcia, www.advocate.com. April 29, 2012.
  • One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.

    Philosophy   Men   Ideas  
    "Whitewashing Black History Month" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2012.
  • It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

    "What Am I Doing in New Jersey?". Live album by George Carlin, 1988.
  • This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

    Country   Men   Psychics  
    "You Are All Diseased". Documentary, Comedy, 1999.
  • A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

  • Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

    Gandhi (Mahatma), Horace Gundry Alexander, National Committee for the Gandhi Centenary (1968). “Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years”
  • Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president or slave owner's name. And, I almost wonder is this, like, is this part of a way of taking back the principle of naming your - I might be going too far into this - but naming your kids something of your choice?

    Source: www.npr.org
  • My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and 18th century that say [sings], "By and by, by and by, I will lay down, this heavy load." And I mean, so many songs that spoke of hope and understand it better by and by. Amazing songs. So that the slaves, just knowing that he, she, did not have the right legally to walk within one inch away from where the slave owner dictated, and yet the same person, wrote and sang with fervor, "If the lord wants somebody, here am I, send me." It's amazing.

    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.

    Book   Writing   Two  
    Source: www.barnesandnoble.com
  • Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

    Dream   Kings   Kids  
  • To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days

  • The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.

    Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.
  • We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.

    Eye   Apology   Men  
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