These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

  • -- Samuel Hopkins 塞缪尔·霍普金斯

因此,这些经文远不能证明正在审议的奴隶制是正当的;因为不能让人看出这些奴隶中有千分之一的人做过任何丧失自己自由的事。

相关名言

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

我们必须继续根据奴隶制是什么来判断它,而不是根据你告诉我们它将是什么,或者可能是什么来判断。

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

工作是一种乐趣时,生活是一种享受!工作是一种义务时,生活则是一种苦役。