Slavery Quotes

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 ...

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art—and by art I m...

Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain cl...

I recollect once of having heard a gentleman from one of the northern States, of great power and abi...

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand a...

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand a...

The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the ma...

These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: … the men in Kentucky [neither] ...

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in fre...

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health car...

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

I am chained to the earth to pay for freedom of my eyes.

Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery ...

Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per c...

From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her mor...

That the Negroes were enslaved more than other races, and on a large scale, is evidently a result of...

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men f...

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state do...

At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings...

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

How grossly are they mistaken in imagining slavery to be disallowed by the Alcoran! Are not the two ...

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed...

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, b...

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...