Slavery Quotes
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Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.
— Frederick Lenz
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
— Gary Haugen
Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed's working hours.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.
— Abraham Lincoln
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
— James A. Garfield
A religious woman is a slave that advocates the slavery.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
— Algernon Blackwood
It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils.
— Neal Shusterman
In the end, Edwards wrestled with slavery, defending the institution within the colonies but also calling for the end of the Atlantic slave trade.
— Richard A. Bailey
Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.
— Taylor Caldwell
There is a simple rule, anyone whose cellphone rings while I am speaking will be sold immediately into slavery
— Robert Fisk
Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people ... The slavery of animals has to be ended too.
— Benjamin Zephaniah
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
— Abraham Lincoln
A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
— Epicurus
My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
— Abraham Lincoln
Marriage is slavery, I said. And when God made us human - if God exists - He didn't intend for us to be slaves to each other.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
— Abraham Lincoln
Rescuing Elena plunged him into the nightmare world of people trafficking and sex slavery.... but as an ex-Royal Marine, he could handle it
— David Zelder
Free your mind and free yourself from brand slavery.
— Bryant McGill
[Ransom] preferred to work as a volunteer rather than in admitted slavery: and he liked his cooking a good deal more than that of his companions.
— C.S. Lewis
The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.
— John Adams
Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.
— Rafael Cruz
I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.
— Nancy E. Turner
Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
— Euripides
The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
— William Dean Howells
I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from.
— David Batstone
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
— Edward Ball
We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.
— Roger Brooke Taney
Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Be a slave of your potential and not a slave of circumstances
— Sunday Adelaja
In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.
— Criss Jami
That Newton shuddered now [at slavery] is a testimony to they way a strong social movement can awaken a conscience..
— Adam Hochschild
We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.
— David Brion Davis
To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.
— Anthony Carmona
No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!
— Widad Akreyi
Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life
— Frederick Douglass
Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.
— Michael Johnson
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist
— Mahatma Gandhi
Detention turned out to be code for slavery.
— Jus Accardo
I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.
— Victor Gollancz
There shall be no slavery of the mind.
— Victor Hugo
No knowledge about self is self-slavery!
— Israelmore Ayivor
To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery, while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
— James Madison
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
— Epictetus
It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves.
— Patricia Hampl
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
— Gerrit Smith
The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?
— Ruben Papian
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
— Upton Sinclair
I judged them against the country I knew, which had acquired the land through murder and tamed it under slavery,
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I am bold to say that, if a man be destitute of the grace of God, his works are only works of slavery; he feels forced to do them.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom,
than have peaceful slavery — Thomas Jefferson
than have peaceful slavery — Thomas Jefferson
What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.
— Dinesh D'Souza
Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.
— Marcus Garvey
The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.
— Paul Robeson
Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
— Abraham Lincoln
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.
— Ingrid Newkirk
The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
— Alan Keyes
Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.
— Shannon Celebi
This was done to you by men and women whose only desire was to enslave you; they have succeeded so well that you are proud of your slavery.
— Orson Scott Card
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.
— Jesse Jackson
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
— Frederick Douglass
Society is the choice between freedom on someone else's terms and slavery on yours.
— Charlie Jane Anders
The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe.
— Dave Eggers
I hear they whip you for stealing."
"Or put you in jail, or sell you into slavery, or kill you, depending on the town and what mood they're in. — Orson Scott Card
"Or put you in jail, or sell you into slavery, or kill you, depending on the town and what mood they're in. — Orson Scott Card
Perhaps the mildest form of the system of slavery is to be seen in the State of Kentucky.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.
— Ahmed Sekou Toure
Ain't we all been hurt by slavery?
— Ernest J. Gaines
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.
— Jonathan Sacks
I am chained to the earth to pay for freedom of my eyes.
— Antonio Porchia
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
— Harriet Tubman
Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
— Pope John Paul II
I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.
— Lawrence Hill
Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.
— Whoopi Goldberg
At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.
— Frederick Douglass
Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things ...
— Angelina Grimke
To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.
— Algernon Sidney