Slavery Quotes

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies of the State.

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it.

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.

Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin.

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

Am I not a man and brother?

Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.

We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.

Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.