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SLAVERY: The most tragic legacy that slavery bequeathed to America is one the country has yet to overcome The two races are fastened to each other without intermingling; and they are also unable to separate entirely or combine. (Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)
SLAVERY: The most tragic legacy that slavery bequeathed to America is one the country has yet to overcome The two races are fastened to each other without intermingling; and they are also unable to separate entirely or combine. (Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)
SLAVERY: The most tragic legacy that slavery bequeathed to America is one the country has yet to overcome: The two races are fastened to each other without intermingling; and they are also unable to separate entirely or combine. (Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)
SLAVERY: As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)
SLAVERY: The master is as tied to the slave as the slave is tied to the master. (Unknown source)
SLAVERY: I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician who served as the 16th U.S. President, 1809-1865)
SLAVERY: If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)