Slavery Quotes
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.
Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery.
Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?
The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.
Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he had to spend all his time hewing and digging and fighting.
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks they should call it slavery instead, for accuracy).
I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.
Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.
Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.
Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.
Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?
So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.
But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.
You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry
Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that
You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.
Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.
As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.
Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.
Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.
I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.
When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?
The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.