Slavery Quotes

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.

Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth.

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

I would rather die upon yonder gallows, than live in slavery.

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

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

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.

One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

I'm so sick and tired of hearing about slavery. You think slavery didn't exist in Africa? Even Indian tribes.

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

Greed is permanent slavery

Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.

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

Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

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

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

Life without the courage to die is slavery.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

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

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

It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended too.

Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.