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The bestowing upon men equality of rights, is but giving license to the strong to oppress the weak. It begets the grossest inequalities of condition.

— George Fitzhugh Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

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The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and, in some sense, the freest people in the world.

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A man loves his children because they are weak, helpless and dependent; he loves his wife for similar reasons.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Liberty and equality are not only destructive to the morals, but to the happiness of society.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

What a glorious thing to man is slavery, when want, misfortune, old age, debility and sickness overtake him.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Free trade or political economy is the science of free society, and socialism is the science of slavery.

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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

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The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.

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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

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It is not true that equality is a law of nature. nature has made nothing equal, her sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

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