Lysander Spooner Quotes

Toward the end of the 19th century Cambodia became a protectorate of France. One of the first things that the French did was abolish slavery. There was a general rebellion as few in Khmer society wanted change of any kind.

Generally, Jefferson was not in favor of whipping slaves, but this quotation shows that he essentially accepted the basic principles of Southern Slavery—including the one that says if the person does not want to work for you, you may whip, beat, or torture him or her to produce “reasonable work.” This acceptance of slavery and profiting from it, is the terrible blot on the record of the man who otherwise was among the few greatest of Americans.

John Sutter was an immigrant to California from Switzerland where he became a Mexican citizen. Slavery was outlawed in Mexico and its territories, yet Sutter and others maintained Indians as slaves. The Roman Catholic Missions of California also kept Indian slaves. This quotation is historically important because many people never realized that slavery was prevalent in California.

The “lords of the lash” were the Southern slave owners. The “lords of the loom” were the Northern mill owners. The Southern cotton, grown by cheap slave labor was sold to the Northern mill owners at very low prices. They in turn wove the cotton into cloth and sold it throughout the nation and to foreign countries. So, although there was strong Northern anti-slavery sentiment, the wealthy and politically powerful mill owners had a vested interest in maintaining slavery in the South.

Referring to the Arawak natives he found when he landed in the "new world—San Salvador:"

American Communist Party newspaper. National Recovery Administration. The NRA was one of the key provision of FDR’s New Deal. The American right saw the program as Communist and left wing, while the Communists distrusted it as being right wing as this quotation illustrates. See also {46137}. The Supreme Court found the program unconstitutional ending this bizarre political debate. FDR was often attacked by both ends of the political spectrum but retained the support of a large coalition in the middle.

Southern secession and the Civil War This is one of the major quotations with which historians rebut the revisionist view that the Civil War was about States’ Rights or other economic factors.

Referring to Black Congressman Julian Bond: Louis Eugene Walcott

The language was removed in the negotiations that followed Jefferson's draft.