Slavery Quotes · Page 4

We've got some new ways to make slaves here.

— L. Ron Hubbard

“Blind faith is just another word for slavery”

— Genevieve Cogman

He who learns death unlearns slavery.

— Cornel West

Security without freedom means slavery.

— Zygmunt Bauman

Relationships are a form of slavery.

— Jeremy Limn

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

— Bob Marley

Slavery is a long slow process of dulling.

— Octavia Butler

Death is better than slavery.

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“Slavery is said to have been unknown among the Tamils”. But”

— Dr Manoranjithamoni

“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.”

— André Gide

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

— Oscar Wilde

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.

— Patrick Henry

This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.

— Lalita Tademy

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

— Jordan Peele

Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.

— Marie Leszczynska

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

— John Henrik Clarke

Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then…

— Josiah Stamp

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... . Better to die than to live in slavery.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

— Gerrit Smith

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

— Jefferson Davis

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless.…

— Mother Teresa

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate…

— Christopher Hitchens

“God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure…

— Robert J. Rayback

There's a really great documentary called 'Many Rivers,' which documents the totality of slavery from its inception, and then it gives you…

— Aldis Hodge

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to…

— Patrick Henry

There is this pressure for us to only tell stories about slavery and the civil rights era, but there are many of…

— Nia DaCosta

I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Even when I became cognizant of this societal problem in this country, I asked my father and my mother if they knew…

— David C. Driskell

“If you are not strong enough to fight you have no choice but to accept the life of a slave. The hunter…

— Théun Mares

“We in this room have no private properties. Perhaps one or two of us may own the homes we live in, or…

— Carson McCullers

“I thought about how Juneteenth is a holiday that inspires so much celebration, born from circumstances imbued with so much tragedy. Enslavers…

— Clint Smith

I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of…

— Amy Watkins

“I wrote 300 books to escape the system, to buy my freedom, to escape slavery. Whoever thinks they need a job, is…

— Robin Sacredfire

If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to…

— Alexander Hamilton

Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that…

— Leo Tolstoy