Quotes about Slavery

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. Votes: 5

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. Votes: 5

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Votes: 4

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. Votes: 4

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. Votes: 4

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. Votes: 4

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! Votes: 4

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom. Votes: 4

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. Votes: 4

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. Votes: 4

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. Votes: 4

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. Votes: 4

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. Votes: 4

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Votes: 4

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.] Votes: 4

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. Votes: 4

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name. Votes: 4

At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape. Votes: 4

The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever. Votes: 4

Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay. Votes: 4

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest. Votes: 4

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic. Votes: 3

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures. Votes: 3

Slavery can never be abolished. Votes: 3

Slavery doesn't have any positives. Votes: 3

Slavery is more mental than anything Votes: 3

Slavery is the offspring of darkness. Votes: 3

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together. Votes: 3

Slavery is the next thing to hell. Votes: 3

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature. Votes: 3

Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity. Votes: 3

Slavery is a long slow process of dulling. Votes: 3

Showing Respect Is not Slavery...and Must Be Taught Votes: 3

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character. Votes: 3

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history. Votes: 3

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. Votes: 3

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. Votes: 3

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world. Votes: 3

Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement. Votes: 3

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery. Votes: 3

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact Votes: 3

Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives. Votes: 3

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery. Votes: 3

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery. Votes: 3

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature. Votes: 3

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. Votes: 3

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery. Votes: 3

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery. Votes: 3

Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules. Votes: 3

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors. Votes: 3

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules. Votes: 3

Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need. Votes: 3

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history. Votes: 3

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North. Votes: 3

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget. Votes: 3

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery? Votes: 3

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. Votes: 3

Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be. Votes: 3

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught. Votes: 3

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion. Votes: 3

Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum. Votes: 3

Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations. Votes: 3

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc. Votes: 3

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty. Votes: 3

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical. Votes: 3

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice. Votes: 3

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. Votes: 3

Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain. Votes: 3

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life. Votes: 3

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery. Votes: 3

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. Votes: 3

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do. Votes: 3

Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them. Votes: 3

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. Votes: 3

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul. Votes: 3

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out? Votes: 3

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep Votes: 3

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things ... Votes: 3

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. Votes: 3

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course. Votes: 3

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories. Votes: 3

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. Votes: 3

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned. Votes: 3

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape. Votes: 3

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. Votes: 3

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel. Votes: 3

If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been. Votes: 3

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another? Votes: 3

Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke. Votes: 3

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable. Votes: 3

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power. Votes: 3

Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne. Votes: 3

Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem. Votes: 3

Socialism means slavery. Votes: 2

Where annual elections end where slavery begins. Votes: 2

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! Votes: 2

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. Votes: 2

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. Votes: 2

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. Votes: 2

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. Votes: 2

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Votes: 2

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. Votes: 2

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. Votes: 2

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit. Votes: 2

The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth. Votes: 2

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. Votes: 2

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals. Votes: 2

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist. Votes: 2

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable. Votes: 2

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! Votes: 2

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will. Votes: 2

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. Votes: 2

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. Votes: 2

It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union. Votes: 2

I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater. Votes: 2

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. Votes: 2

Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor. Votes: 2

My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world. Votes: 2

It's modern-day slavery. Votes: 0

All religion is slavery. Votes: 0

Greed is permanent slavery Votes: 0

All socialism involves slavery. Votes: 0

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath. Votes: 0

Career is just posh slavery. Votes: 0

Work without love is slavery. Votes: 0

No pope ever condemned slavery. Votes: 0

Security without freedom means slavery. Votes: 0

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery Votes: 0

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery. Votes: 0

He who learns death unlearns slavery. Votes: 0

Freedom and slavery are mental states. Votes: 0

There is no slavery but ignorance. Votes: 0

Stardom can be a gilded slavery." Votes: 0

Liberty is life; slavery is death. Votes: 0

Stardom can be a gilded slavery. Votes: 0

A great fortune is a great slavery. Votes: 0

Mental slavery is worst than physical slavery Votes: 0

A great fortune is a great slavery. Votes: 0

The service of sin is perfect slavery. Votes: 0

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. Votes: 0

War is horrible, but slavery is worse. Votes: 0

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery Votes: 0

What would New York be without slavery? Votes: 0

Debt is the slavery of the free. Votes: 0

Socialism is a new form of slavery. Votes: 0

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery Votes: 0

Freedom without structure is its own slavery. Votes: 0

Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters Votes: 0

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. Votes: 0

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized. Votes: 0

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery. Votes: 0

Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased) Votes: 0

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society. Votes: 0

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude. Votes: 0

Life without the courage for death is slavery. Votes: 0

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. Votes: 0

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery. Votes: 0

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. Votes: 0

Life without the courage to die is slavery. Votes: 0

There shall be no slavery of the mind. Votes: 0

To some extent I liken slavery to death. Votes: 0

If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery. Votes: 0

Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery. Votes: 0

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery. Votes: 0

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery. Votes: 0

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. Votes: 0

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery. Votes: 0

I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves. Votes: 0

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery. Votes: 0

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery. Votes: 0

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone. Votes: 0

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. Votes: 0

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury. Votes: 0

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have. Votes: 0

The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line Votes: 0

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom. Votes: 0

A religious woman is a slave that advocates the slavery. Votes: 0

Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery. Votes: 0

Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it. Votes: 0

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery. Votes: 0

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone. Votes: 0

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. Votes: 0

Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance. Votes: 0

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery? Votes: 0

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker. Votes: 0

I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world. Votes: 0

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery. Votes: 0

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. Votes: 0

A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity. Votes: 0

It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery! Votes: 0

We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day. Votes: 0

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery. Votes: 0

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. Votes: 0

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery. Votes: 0

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament? Votes: 0

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself. Votes: 0

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery. Votes: 0

I would rather die upon yonder gallows, than live in slavery. Votes: 0

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. Votes: 0

I see as white people finding loopholes in the slavery laws. Votes: 0

The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery. Votes: 0

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. Votes: 0

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence. Votes: 0

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery. Votes: 0

The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes. Votes: 0

In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. Votes: 0

It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues. Votes: 0

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. Votes: 0

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. Votes: 0

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd. Votes: 0

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery. Votes: 0

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery. Votes: 0

If we don't unite, chances are we will go back into slavery. Votes: 0

I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery. Votes: 0

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery Votes: 0

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope. Votes: 0

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery Votes: 0

The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment. Votes: 0

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery. Votes: 0

Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage. Votes: 0

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration. Votes: 0

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it. Votes: 0

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary. Votes: 0

How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery? Votes: 0

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery. Votes: 0

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter. Votes: 0

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery. Votes: 0

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery. Votes: 0

If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians. Votes: 0

The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking. Votes: 0

Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life. Votes: 0

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery. Votes: 0

Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slop kettles! Votes: 0

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government. Votes: 0

Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct. Votes: 0

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery. Votes: 0

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue. Votes: 0

The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense. Votes: 0

Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery. Votes: 0

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. Votes: 0

The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more. Votes: 0

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. Votes: 0

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery. Votes: 0

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime. Votes: 0

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. Votes: 0

[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda] Votes: 0

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne? Votes: 0

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. Votes: 0

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it. Votes: 0

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. Votes: 0

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. Votes: 0

If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong. Votes: 0

No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery. Votes: 0

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. Votes: 0

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt. Votes: 0

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote. Votes: 0

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery? Votes: 0

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery. Votes: 0

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom. Votes: 0

A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery. Votes: 0

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave. Votes: 0

I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space. Votes: 0

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery. Votes: 0

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity... Votes: 0

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery. Votes: 0

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed. Votes: 0

Hope of consciousness is strength Hope of feelings is slavery Hope of body is disease. Votes: 0

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. Votes: 0

Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life Votes: 0

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia. Votes: 0

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow. Votes: 0

The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery. Votes: 0

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike. Votes: 0

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. Votes: 0

As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion. Votes: 0

All of us are called to fight #‎ humantraffickin g and #‎ slavery . Votes: 0

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. Votes: 0

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it. Votes: 0

...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery. Votes: 0

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery? Votes: 0

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. Votes: 0

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it. Votes: 0

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief. Votes: 0

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery. Votes: 0

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. Votes: 0

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery. Votes: 0

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. Votes: 0

The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery. Votes: 0

Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery, Votes: 0

This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose. Votes: 0

Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. Votes: 0

Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart. Votes: 0

Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom! Votes: 0

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him. Votes: 0

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. Votes: 0

The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves. Votes: 0

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. Votes: 0

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery. Votes: 0

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! Votes: 0

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body Votes: 0

Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. Votes: 0

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by. Votes: 0

What if history was changed? slavery reversed Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse? Votes: 0

How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history? Votes: 0

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist Votes: 0

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery. Votes: 0

If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom. Votes: 0

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery. Votes: 0

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely. Votes: 0

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. Votes: 0

Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery; and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom. Votes: 0

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. Votes: 0

Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery, Votes: 0

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires. Votes: 0

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine. Votes: 0

Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery. Votes: 0

Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery. Votes: 0

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished. Votes: 0

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. Votes: 0

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless. Votes: 0

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free Votes: 0

The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery. Votes: 0

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master. Votes: 0

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. Votes: 0

As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results. Votes: 0

For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement. Votes: 0

Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever? Votes: 0

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. Votes: 0

The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world! Votes: 0

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. Votes: 0

I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back. Votes: 0

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery. Votes: 0

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. Votes: 0

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong. Votes: 0

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery Votes: 0

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. Votes: 0

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing. Votes: 0

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery. Votes: 0

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. Votes: 0

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... . Better to die than to live in slavery. Votes: 0

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting. Votes: 0

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. Votes: 0

I'm so sick and tired of hearing about slavery. You think slavery didn't exist in Africa? Even Indian tribes. Votes: 0

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery! Votes: 0

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality. Votes: 0

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms. Votes: 0

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery. Votes: 0

Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are. Votes: 0

[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery. Votes: 0

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions. Votes: 0

How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned? Votes: 0

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. Votes: 0

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. Votes: 0

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. Votes: 0

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. Votes: 0

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual? Votes: 0

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty. Votes: 0

I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it. Votes: 0

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire. Votes: 0

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace. Votes: 0

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? Votes: 0

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. Votes: 0

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold. Votes: 0

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. Votes: 0

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. Votes: 0

We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery. Votes: 0

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery. Votes: 0

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash. Votes: 0

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom. Votes: 0

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day. Votes: 0

Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance. Votes: 0

Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. Votes: 0

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery; Votes: 0

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. Votes: 0

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not. Votes: 0

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting. Votes: 0

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery. Votes: 0

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. Votes: 0

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade. Votes: 0

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process. Votes: 0

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. Votes: 0

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery. Votes: 0

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. Votes: 0

Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate. Votes: 0

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. Votes: 0

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, "˜To die is gain.' Votes: 0

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior. Votes: 0

You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder. Votes: 0

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion. Votes: 0

Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on. Votes: 0

Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on. Votes: 0

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery. Votes: 0

The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel. Votes: 0

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. Votes: 0

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery! Votes: 0

Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan. Votes: 0

The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin. Votes: 0

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery. Votes: 0

It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery. Votes: 0

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience. Votes: 0

Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature. Votes: 0

An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character. Votes: 0

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship. Votes: 0

It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery. Votes: 0

We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods Votes: 0

Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority. Votes: 0

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference. Votes: 0

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. Votes: 0

I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery. Votes: 0

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity. Votes: 0

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty. Votes: 0

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. Votes: 0

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. Votes: 0

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one's own and that of other people. Votes: 0

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery. Votes: 0

Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life. Votes: 0

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it. Votes: 0

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now. Votes: 0

When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to. Votes: 0

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil... Votes: 0

May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery. Votes: 0

Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise. Votes: 0

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. Votes: 0

The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism. Votes: 0

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine. Votes: 0

It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves. Votes: 0

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. Votes: 0

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it. Votes: 0

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death? Votes: 0

When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery. Votes: 0

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue. Votes: 0

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument. Votes: 0

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. Votes: 0

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery Votes: 0

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. Votes: 0

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. Votes: 0

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. Votes: 0

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God. Votes: 0

The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends. Votes: 0

Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science Votes: 0

The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended too. Votes: 0

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet. Votes: 0

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise. Votes: 0

The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown. Votes: 0

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free. Votes: 0

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall. Votes: 0

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. Votes: 0

If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish. Votes: 0

Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy. Votes: 0

Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery. Votes: 0

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life. Votes: 0

I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue. Votes: 0

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us. Votes: 0

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. Votes: 0

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery. Votes: 0

The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start? Votes: 0

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. Votes: 0

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that. Votes: 0

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. Votes: 0

Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them. Votes: 0

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free. Votes: 0

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans. Votes: 0

What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own. Votes: 0

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. Votes: 0

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. Votes: 0

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Votes: 0

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery. Votes: 0

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel. Votes: 0

I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery Votes: 0

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us. Votes: 0

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal. Votes: 0

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. Votes: 0

With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty. Votes: 0

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery? Votes: 0

Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave. Votes: 0

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner. Votes: 0

And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery. Votes: 0

Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery. Votes: 0

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows Votes: 0

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. Votes: 0

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on. Votes: 0

To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it. Votes: 0

I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know. Votes: 0

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Votes: 0

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade. Votes: 0

In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery. Votes: 0

I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from. Votes: 0

From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many. Votes: 0

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery. Votes: 0

Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land! Votes: 0

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring. Votes: 0

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again. Votes: 0

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning. Votes: 0

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery. Votes: 0

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. Votes: 0

We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience. Votes: 0

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery. Votes: 0

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist. Votes: 0

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. Votes: 0

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person. Votes: 0