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Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

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

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.