I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.