“I knew about the Loyalists, but I didn't know there were slaves.

Half of black Democrats don't realize they are slaves and don't know who their masters are. The other half don't care.

At least black people knew when they were slaves. You remain clueless.

People are scarcely aware that it is a slavery they are creating; they forget this in their zeal to make people free by overthrowing dominions. They are scarcely aware that it is slavery; how could it be possible to be a slave in relation to equals?

Slaves no doubt, but still men.

There is a subtle difference between being a prisoner and being a slave. I don’t mistake either for being free. Neither do you.

'I do not know these good men,' replied the prisoner.

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write. This but partially expresses the fact. They are ignorant of the world about them, of modern economic organization, of the function of government, of individual worth and possibilities, — of nearly all those things which slavery in self-defence had to keep them from learning.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

O virtuous reader! You never knew what it is to be a slave; to be entirely unprotected by law or custom; to have the laws reduce you to the condition of a chattel, entirely subject to the will of another. You never exhausted your ingenuity in avoiding the snares, and eluding the power of a hated tyrant; you never shuddered at the sound of his footsteps, and trembled within hearing of his voice.

“They are slaves,” people declare. Nay, rather they are men. “Slaves!” No, comrades. “Slaves!” No, they are unpretentious friends. “Slaves!” No, they are our fellow-slaves, if one reflects that Fortune has equal rights over slaves and free men alike.