Slavery Quotes

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism an...

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law g...

Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the ...

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

We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none ...

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who cr...

It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty...

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward...

Everybody granted that if "Tom" were white and free it would be unquestionably right to punish him--...

To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was bla...

We had a little slave boy whom we had hired from some one, there in Hannibal. He was from the Easter...

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whis...

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or w...

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

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equa...

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protec...

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets ...

That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how t...

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

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

Is power like the vis viva and the quantite d’avancement? That is, is it conserved by the universe, ...

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was...

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any la...

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted in...

We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that ...

Slavery, that was a kind of alchemy for such White folk, or so they reckoned. They calculated a way ...

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indee...

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it...

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which...

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where ...

Your answer is the logical, coherent answer an absolutely normal person would give: It's a tie! A lu...

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slaver...

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own.

The stuff of nightmare is their plain bread. They butter it with pain. They set their clocks by deat...

I feel that for white America to understand the significance of the problem of the Negro will take a...

Freedom is a hard habit to break.

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with vo...

We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an ev...

Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was eman...

The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommo...

The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tend...

Nevermore shall men make slaves of others! Not in Asgard--not on Earth--not any place where the hamm...

He had been born into debt, as had his father and his father before him. Indenture and slavery were ...

Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master u...

The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and sh...

By law, a slaw was three-fifths of a person. It came to me that what I’d just suggested would seem p...

To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is lif...

You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?

I hope you're not proposing to enslave us,' said Twoflower.Marchesa looked genuinely shocked. 'Certa...

War, Nobby. Huh! What is it good for?" he said. "Dunno, Sarge. Freeing slaves, maybe?""Absol—well, o...

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ...

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...

Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, them...

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated...

Despite widespread misconceptions in the United States today that the institution of slavery was bas...

White liberals, instead of comparing what has happened to the black family since the liberal welfare...

It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly...

That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, o...

The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: dr...

And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not ...

Paul D did not answer because she didn't expect or want him to, but he did know what she meant. List...

In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under contro...

I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joinin...

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learn...

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

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly ref...

In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we...

There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of peo...

No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must c...

It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...

From other stories that have been handed down to me I know that my people, like many others in the s...

As a people, we have been tolled farther and farther away from the facts of what we have done by the...

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves i...

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and fin...

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This te...

There had been three of them once: James, then a sister named Fonsiba, then Lucas, children of Aunt ...

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement w...

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I w...

Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go ...

Fortunate, most fortunate occurrence! — fortunate for the millions of his manacled brethren, yet pan...

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish t...

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personall...

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

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy s...

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitu...

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain ...

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of ...

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

The democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing when in conflict with a...

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and in...

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth ...