Slavery Quotes

If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

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

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

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

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

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

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

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

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

Socialism means slavery.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor EXPLOITATION, the other recourse is EXTERMINATION.

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

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

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

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.

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

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

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

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

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

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

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

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

Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

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

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

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

Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.

A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.

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

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.

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

The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.

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

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

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

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

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

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

I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially commanded by God through Moses and approved by Christ through His Apostles.

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

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

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

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

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.