Quotes about slave-owners
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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. Candice Millard
slave-owners people being-real
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
slave-owners kind worst
The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves Oscar Wilde
slave-owners special aristocracy
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
slave-owners debt dignity
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. Victor Hugo
slave-owners people racist
People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner. Rush Limbaugh