America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think only now am I at the age where I've forgiven the past enough to say, 'You know what? Slavery was there. Let's talk about it in ways that will help us face tomorrow.
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.
Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
I cannot ignore this reality, and I encourage my all colleagues to join me in this fight to end modern day slavery in our own backyard.
God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.