Slavery Quotes
Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.
Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.
Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.
Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.
Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.
The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe.
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.
The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?