Enslavement Quotes

Success is both an addiction and an enslavement...

— Paulo Coelho

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

— Irvin D. Yalom

“A job is a contract whereby you sell out a bit of your life daily”

— Sunday Adelaja

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

— R. D. Laing

“A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement.

— Manisha Sinha

“The desire to get money through jobs enslaves us”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Enslavement of the heart is worse than enslavement of the body”

— Anonymous

A war undertaken and brazenly carried for the perpetual enslavement of the colored men, calls logically and loudly for the colored men…

— Frederick Douglass

We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the…

— Pope Francis

“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.”

— Anonymous

“hierarchy-making was wielded in the service of a political project: enslavement.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.”

— Larken Rose

If you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.

— Michele Bachmann

“We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“ Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein . None are more hopelessly enslaved than…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us say "Yes" to life and not death. Let us say "Yes" to freedom and not enslavement to the many idols…

— Pope Francis

One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth…

— Jurnee Smollett

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not…

— William Pickens

To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is…

— Gerry Spence

Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003 five justices…

— Ward Connerly

The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that's because it's tied to so much shame and guilt...…

— Aldis Hodge

To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial…

— Karl Liebknecht

“The only true “us and them” situation is the cult owned leaders versus the citizens in every country. Sadly though, the “us…

— Jack Freestone

At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to…

— Herbert Marcuse

“The importation and enslavement of millions of lack people, the destruction of the American Indian population, the internment of Japanese American, the…

— Stanley Milgram

There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of…

— Ayn Rand

I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts'…

— Julianne Malveaux

To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that…

— Oswald Spengler

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as…

— Grace Lee Boggs

The most disgusting, appalling horror of our world that we live in, to me, is sex trafficking and the enslavement of men…

— Taylor Hackford

“The institution of slavery was, for a quarter millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if…

— Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

“All of you. Why are you … being …” I struggled for the right word. “Nice?” “We’re courting you,” Andel said, like…

— Jane Washington

“I couldn't. I couldn't do it. It wasn't like hunting; it wasn't for survival or defence. It was cold-blooded murder- the murder…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains—whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier…

— Frederick Douglass

“Authentic acts of goodness set you free; they don't enslave you.”

— Kathy Jo Nicholson

“The world system enslaves through jobs”

— Sunday Adelaja