Slavery Quotes

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Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Slavery is the next thing to hell.

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.

Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.

Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.