Slavery Quotes

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.

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.

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

The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.

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

The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

Death is better than slavery.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

Security without freedom means slavery.

It's modern-day slavery.

How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history?

When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.

I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.

It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

All religion is slavery.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

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

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery

Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.