Freed Slaves Quotes

#1. In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and hopes have long been turned to the rich fund presented in the western lands of the nation ...

James Madison

#2. Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible's approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of preserving the southern way of life, and a paternalistic concern that freed slaves could not survive on their own.

Steven Pinker

#3. Like most blacks in Philadelphia, Eliza was free. She said Philadelphia was the best city for freed slaves or freeborn Africans.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#4. With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't 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

#5. Freed slaves were not given land, however, and formed a new urban underclass, often moving to the favelas, slum areas that are still part of Brazilian cities today.

Anonymous

#6. I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.

Harriet Tubman

#7. We take our fetters with us; our freedom is not total: we still turn our gaze towards the things we have left behind; our imagination is full of them.

Michel De Montaigne

#8. Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

Larry Flynt

#9. I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Harriet Tubman

#10. Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

Stephen Ambrose

#11. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

Sarah Vowell

#12. I'm fonder of you than anybody on earth. I couldn't tell you that in New York. It'd mean I was a faggot. That was what the Civil War was about. Abraham Lincoln was a faggot. He was in love with General Grant. So was Jefferson Davis. Lincoln just freed the slaves on a bet.

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. He preserved the union and freed the slaves.

Daniel H. Pink

#14. If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

Harriet Tubman

#15. it was Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, not John Brown. In 1859, John Brown was hanged, with federal complicity, for attempting to do by small-scale violence what Lincoln would do by large-scale violence several years later - end slavery.

Howard Zinn

#16. Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.

Thomas Clarkson

#17. If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come
'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

Calvin Trillin

#18. I believe in the magic and authority of words.

Rene Char

#19. As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.

Wendy Kopp

#20. A man's world, but a white man's planet.

Capital STEEZ

#21. Practice creates habits, and habits create mastery of any process or skill.

Anonymous

#22. The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

Wynton Marsalis

#24. Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception.

Ted Dekker

#25. He could do anything and it would be right, for he had made himself a willing puppet of God's purpose and in so doing freed himself. He alone free, surrounded by slaves.

Joe Abercrombie

#26. We were all born robots. We were all born slaves to our sin. We did what the flesh and what the devil told us to do. For those of us that have been freed by Jesus, we don't have to be robots.

Trip Lee

#27. Abraham Lincoln got shot and died,
Freed the slaves so they put him on the five.

Too $hort

#28. Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.

Gerry Spence

#29. I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

Marion Barry

#30. A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.

Isaac Bashevis Singer