Slavery Quotes

“A realist is a slave to reality.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All socialism involves slavery.

— Herbert Spencer

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

— Ben Jonson

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

— Victor Hugo

They are hare-brain'd slaves.

— William Shakespeare

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Slavery by Another Name.”

— Bryan Stevenson

I miss you like a white man misses slavery.

— Anonymous

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

— Richard Francis Burton

“To live [in the church] at the beck and call of marketing logic is to live in slavery.”

— Mark Galli

“I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom, than have peaceful slavery”

— Anonymous

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

— Albert Camus

One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves.

— Confucius

Showing Respect Is not Slavery...and Must Be Taught

— Jim Stovall

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

— Khalil Gibran

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.

— Frederick Lenz

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more…

— Bob Edwards

[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

— Gregory Maguire

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal…

— David Oyelowo

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate…

— Hartley Coleridge

“Both animal and human slaves could be controlled best if kept economically and psychically dependent on their owners.”

— David Christian

“Slavery and serfdom, while not unknown in tribal societies, expand enormously under the aegis of states.”

— Francis Fukuyama

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say…

— Jesse Jackson

From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those…

— Charles Edward Merriam

Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23…

— Kevin Bales

...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and…

— Angelina Grimke

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of…

— Lysander Spooner

Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery,…

— Jeffrey Rosen

The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to…

— Sarah Churchwell

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation…

— Angelina Grimke

Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a…

— Herbert Spencer

Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you!…

— Elizabeth Keckley

“So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may…

— Upton Sinclair

“The Matrix can feel like a pretty hopeless place. I get that. Nobody in his or her right mind (a tiny minority,…

— Sol Luckman

And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and…

— Sojourner Truth

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The tightly intertwined stories of the white working class and black Americans go back to the prehistory of the United States—and the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting…

— Woodrow Wilson

“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open…

— Benjamin Franklin