Thomas Clarkson quotes
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“Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.”
-- Thomas ClarksonSource : Thomas Clarkson (1788). “An essay on the slavery”, p.60
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“It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.”
-- Thomas ClarksonSource : Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.124, Broadview Press
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“Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.”
-- Thomas ClarksonSource : Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.63, Broadview Press
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“We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.”
-- Thomas ClarksonSource : Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, Broadview Press
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“When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.”
-- Thomas ClarksonSource : Thomas Clarkson (1787). “An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species: Particularly the African, Translated from a Latin Dissertation, which was Honoured with the First Prize, in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions. [One Line from Livy]”, p.52
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“There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.”
-- Thomas ClarksonSource : Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.96, Broadview Press
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“Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?”
-- Thomas ClarksonSource : Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.124, Broadview Press
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Source : 1967 In the Observer,12 Feb.
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“To live exuberantly, we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in ourselves.”
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“I was born in India - but never really lived there.”
Source : "Aasif Mandvi's {ldquo}Today's Special' opens festival" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. March 07, 2010.
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“Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”
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