Irony is the glory of slaves.

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

— Abraham Lincoln

Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now,…

— Muhammad Ali

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless…

— Susan Griffin

“Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking…

— Anthony Ryan

They are hare-brain'd slaves.

— William Shakespeare

Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived…

— Gerry Spence

My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that…

— Anonymous

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

— Stefan Molyneux

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves…

— Abraham Lincoln

The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the…

— Albert Camus

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown…

— Wynton Marsalis

If we gotta fight and die for America, why should we be treated like slaves in America?

— Hosea Williams

“The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Sad as the position of a slave is, my uncle’s hardness of heart added much to the unhappiness of those who had the misfortune…

— Victor Hugo