Slavery Quotes

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

It's modern-day slavery.

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

Base is the slave that pays.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery.

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

He who learns death unlearns slavery.

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then let them continue the issue of currency control and regulate the money supply of the nation.

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

I don't find the idea of sewing degrading. A thing is degrading when you are forced to do it, through economic reasons or through slavery or some other form of compulsion.

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.