Slavery Quotes

The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago.

The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.

Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development.

If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.

The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences formed a line of discrimination.

Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

Showing Respect Is not Slavery...and Must Be Taught

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.

The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

No pope ever condemned slavery.

The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth nothing; and that's what she's fighting against.

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.

The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who are trying to build new lives, trying to build a better life.

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.

If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual slavery, eugenics experiments, on and on.

Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.