Slavery History Quotes

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

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

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

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

An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.

A hostage?""They used the word slave, but isnt' it the same thing? Isn't that what you'd call it if someone stole me and put me in a house and wouldn't let me leave? Isn't it?

Thus the word "inhuman", in this book's title, refers to the unconscionable and unsuccessful goal of bestializing (in the form of pets as well as beasts of burden) a class of human beings.