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。

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Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

人们崇拜机器,因为它们美丽而珍贵,因为它们赋予权力;人们憎恨他们,因为他们丑陋不堪,憎恨他们,因为他们强加奴隶制度。

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.

我的另一个愿望是尽可能少地依赖奴隶的劳动。