Slavery Quotes

The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist befor...

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important th...

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambi...

I am a democrat [proponent of democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man.I think most people ar...

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no...

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanctio...

We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Huma...

The light on her face was a lesson, a book that she hoped he would want to read, but he looked away ...

I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered thi...

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded ...

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece ofspecious humbug designed to conceal i...

...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--i...

Private ownerships of a ...slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monop...

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you ar...

see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted ...

From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots.

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy...

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, u...

it means what it say," Ethel said. "It means that a Hebrew may not enslave a Hebrew. But the sons of...

What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bo...

Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many ti...

But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it...The ...

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all...

The land she tilled and worked had been Indian land. She knew the white men bragged about the effici...

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with bl...

The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another count...

If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was suppo...

The Irish were poor, but not enslaved. He had come here to hack away at the ropes that held American...

His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own p...

Santería was traditionally an unacknowledged and underappreciated aspect of what it meant to be Cuba...

The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want th...

...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & be...

To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more tro...

What had happened was that the formal pattern of black-and-white, mistress-and-servant, had been bro...

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

It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes...

Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history o...

I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come.

Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exu...

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to...

Do you know what guerrillas often say? They claim that their rebellions are invulnerable to economic...

Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the othe...

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

If there is no struggle there is no progress.

My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the ch...

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

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

There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and ...

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than a...

Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the gro...

The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped lo...

The frequent hearing of my mistress readingthe bible--for she often read aloud when herhusband was a...

At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and s...

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal wo...

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slav...

e have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibl...

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid ...

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead...

...The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evi...

Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and te...

I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposit...

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no othe...

It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth coul...

For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his hea...

These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them be...

...I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocr...

What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding relig...

She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had becom...

In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social...

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of ...

An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify an...

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is really hideous, and "compassion...

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And spec...

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animal...

I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent wit...

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is mor...

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only...

If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present para...

Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interestsin being treated “human...

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use...

If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is n...

The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welf...

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your...

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a bein...

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that...

The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation...

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan...

I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally jus...

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personh...

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the...

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is obje...

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.