Political Quotes

So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.

And yet, infinitely flagrant as the anomaly is, the slave is amenable to the laws of the land for all offences which he may commit against others, though he is powerless to protect himself by the same law from offences which others may…

The wickedest white man, in a company of slaves, bears a charmed life.

Here the two systems have worked side by side for ages, under such equal circumstances, both political and physical, and with such ample time and opportunity for each to work out its proper effects, that all must admit the experiment to be…