I believe that involuntary servitude, as it exists in different States of this Confederacy, is recognized by the Constitution. I believe that it stands like any other admitted right, and that the States where it exists are entitled to efficient remedies to enforce the constitutional provisions.

Franklin Pierce

Inaugural Address of Franklin Pierce

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Pre-Civil War conflict Slavery American politics

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Franklin Pierce

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Inaugural Address of Franklin Pierce Presidential inaugural address

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English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

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American President National leader Politician

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United States

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Pierce, Franklin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1853, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.

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These men and women...ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.

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Anthony Kennedy
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If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

Calvin Coolidge

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Coolidge, Calvin. Speech on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 5 July 1926, Philadelphia, PA, USA.