Slavery Quotes

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

Slavery can never be abolished.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on.

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.

The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters

Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.