Slavery Quotes
Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.
Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.
Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.
I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something
Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.
Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece ofspecious humbug designed to conceal it's desire for economic control ofthe Southern states.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.
Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.
To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own.
Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.
It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.
Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.
To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.
Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.
Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.
The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.
Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.
A hostage?""They used the word slave, but isnt' it the same thing? Isn't that what you'd call it if someone stole me and put me in a house and wouldn't let me leave? Isn't it?
Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.
see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment.
Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.
In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.