Slavery Quotes

We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys is in favor of slavery, right?

There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be the people we want to name schools and streets after.

Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.

The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

I see as white people finding loopholes in the slavery laws.

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.

I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from.

I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world.

In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly reject that assumption - that John Ashcroft is a openminded, inclusive person.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.

[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.

Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian participation in contemporary social issues.

I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.

The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.