Slavery Quotes

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?

When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space.

It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.

An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned?

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.

Death is a slave's freedom.

I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves.

There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism. One could equally say that slavery is a reality, and misogyny too.

What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.

All of us are called to fight #‎ humantraffickin g and #‎ slavery .

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.

Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.

Man alone can enslave man.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.