Slavery Quotes
I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people? What was I supposed to say? That my father is the president, and my mother is his slave?
In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks. For all these reasons, the helots hated the Spartans bitterly.
It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of our country
This country was founded with the understanding that we shall be allowed to hold slaves. It was a condition of the formation. That shall not change regardless of the rhetoric coming from the North.
From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots.
Then Mattie journeyed away from her home toward freedom and her family, leaving behind the bones of generations of her ancestors and their captors
From the neglect of a real duty, she became the slave of a false one.
Somewhat paradoxically, the more that Africans and their descendants assimilated cultural materials from colonial society, the less human they became in the minds of the colonists.
It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.
What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?
Who said slavery is over? We all are slaves, either you work for your self or for someone ealse,
Slavery was, in fact, a social system designed to destroy social capital among slaves and between slaves and freemen.
White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.
In history, the bleeding from arbitrary beatings, forced breedings, and choked-heatbreathing could almost be withstood by soul-feeding songs sung, or listlessly hummed just to go on.
You ever think about the noose?''I been thinking about the noose since I was born.
Did you know that even 50 years after all other countries had abolished slavery, the Netherlands refused to?
If I say you are not free to associate with me, it also means I too am not free to associate with you. I might call you the slave but not less bound by the slavery I have created."- Prince Ikan
Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust white men.
Although it would lead me to believe otherwise, fear has little interest in intimidating me. Rather, it much prefers to enslave me.
For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.
I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come.
It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes a sin when the sugar was grown by human beings held in unspeakable misery.
Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust a white man.
There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
He had been born into debt, as had his father and his father before him. Indenture and slavery were two words for the same thing.
Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.
I will follow anyone... And tell everyone...How grateful I am...To the Western nations.
Thus the word "inhuman", in this book's title, refers to the unconscionable and unsuccessful goal of bestializing (in the form of pets as well as beasts of burden) a class of human beings.
The difference between a free human and a human is not the word "free" it's the word "human", because humanity can never be caged with the chains of slavery.
We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope!We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion!
Men have enslaved each other since they invented gods to forgive them for doing it.
And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.
they ask for water we give them seathey ask for bread we give them seathey ask for life we give them only the sea
I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.
I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed, The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.
You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase.
You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?
Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.