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I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds. — Lucy N. Colman

Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are. — Gary Haugen

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

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave. — Mike Tyson

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

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

If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been. — Napoleon Hill

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

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

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

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves? — Herman Melville

SHOW THE WORLD YOUR STRONG COMPASSION!
GIVE YOUR VOICE TO VOICELESS KOBANE KIDS! — Widad Akreyi

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery. — Algernon Sidney

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person. — Solomon Northup

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. — Anais Nin

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

It is better to die in the field of honour than to live in the chains of slavery; — Matthew Henry

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

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

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned. — Marcus Garvey

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery. — Benjamin F. Wade

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