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The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XXIXIn context
- Power
Torture was necessary to maintain slavery. It was integral to slavery. You cannot have slavery without some torture or the threat of torture; and you cannot have torture without slavery.
Andrew Sullivanborn 1963“Slavery and Torture”, The Daily Dish (23 February 2007)
Because they didn’t know better, they called it “civilization,” when it was part of their slavery.
Tacitus55–120Agricola (98), Book 1, paragraph 21
- Freedom
This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime.
Mike Tysonborn 1966
- America
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (12 February 1909)
- Race
The thought of being under absolute compulsion, the plaything of another, is unendurable for a human being.
Simone Weil1909–1943Gravity and Grace (1947), p. 142 (1972 edition)
- Freedom
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners…
William Wilberforce1759–1833Journal entry (28 October 1787), in The Life of William Wilberforce (1838) by his sons, vol. 1
- God