Slavery Quotes · Page 17

A free man chooses, a slave obeys

— Andrew Ryan

“Slavery never died, it just changed form.”

— Steven Magee

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Benjamin Carson

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

— Khalil Gibran

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

— John Quincy Adams

“Thus the thoughtless drift backward toward slavery.”

— Carter G. Woodson

“Out of slavery, freedom --yes, & roses from the pig's behind.”

— Kenneth Patchen

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

— Eugenio Maria de Hostos

“Life is slavery if the courage to die is absent.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.

— James Madison

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to…

— George Eliot

For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.

— Ira Berlin

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks…

— Kirk Douglas

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

— Chris Rock

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and…

— Chuck D

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

— Rita Mae Brown

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church…

— Anonymous

Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people…

— Bartolome de las Casas

I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day…

— Jefferson Davis

Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what…

— Samuel R. Delany

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands…

— Nelson Mandela

From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow…

— Patrick Madrid

In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa],…

— James Madison

I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse…

— Cornel West

With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s…

— Rand Paul

There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave.…

— Mark Twain

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam,…

— Muhammad Ali

Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as…

— Thomas Pogge

“Oh! How heavily the weight of slavery pressed upon me then. I must toil day after day, endure abuse and taunts and…

— Solomon Northup

Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.

— William Shakespeare

It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery.

— Bryan Stevenson

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.

— Khalil Gibran

“The brightest skies are always foreshadowed by dark clouds”

— Harriet Jacobs

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

— Albert Einstein

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

— Jesse Jackson