Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters

“Many of the Founding Fathers themselves foresaw that their compromise with southern states was a poison pill that would eventually lead to tragedy. But…

— Tom Reiss

Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted to live…

— Sheikh Abdullah

It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who…

— Ousmane Sembene

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

— Herman Melville

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal…

— Fritz Sauckel

When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage…

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

— Ntozake Shange

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

— Anonymous

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed…

— Edward Gibbon

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

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

“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

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