Slavery Quotes
In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.
We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.
In the battle for possession of souls and worlds, it is likely that all serve to only one master.
It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it’s purpose in your life.
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment
I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.
It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.
Slavery all day, and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!
What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?
Nevermore shall men make slaves of others! Not in Asgard--not on Earth--not any place where the hammer of Thor can be swung--or where men of good faith hold freedom dear!
When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.
Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.
Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.
When evil rules a time and place, certain good people are called upon to tell the truth to those who don't want to hear it.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.
You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you.
An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.
In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.
Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.
Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.
That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.
I am not a thing. I am not your possession. I am a human being."- CBI Agent Sam Rose
The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.
Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.
Proverbs 22:7 "The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender."Galatians 5:1 "do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Slavery of the heart, oh Love - a prisoner of will thou art - proof that love, while blissful, can oft also be Hell. Demonstrative definition thou art, that love can be strategic as well!
In the end, we live to serve the Saviour, who saved us from all slavery in the flesh. And make us awake in a new life of the spirit of Christ Jesus.
The family is one of the greatest traps that society has used for millennia to keep man a slave
Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.
