--- title: "16 Human Slavery Quotes by 14 authors" description: "Browse 16 Human Slavery quotes by 14 authors. Discover the best Human Slavery sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b27/abraham-lincoln-88_fostering_we-were-proclaiming-ourselves-political_253307.png" --- > [We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/we-were-proclaiming-ourselves-political-hypocrites-before-the-world/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b27/abraham-lincoln-88_fostering_we-were-proclaiming-ourselves-political_253307.png) > [We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marisol-nichols/we-believe-slavery-was-abolished-with-abraham-lincoln-unfortunately/) [Marisol Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marisol-nichols/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bc/marisol-nichols-17883_alive_we-believe-slavery-was-abolished-with-ab_1397395.jpg) > [If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kailash-satyarthi/if-not-now-then-when-if-not-you-then-who-if-we-are-able-to-answer/) [Kailash Satyarthi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kailash-satyarthi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a1/kailash-satyarthi-17233_able_if-not-now-then-when-if-not-you-then-who_2285178.jpg) > [It's a warehouse of human slavery and it doesn't help for a person who need a weekly salary. So if your eyes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/black-uhuru/it-s-a-warehouse-of-human-slavery-and-it-doesn-t-help-for-a-person/) [Black Uhuru](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/black-uhuru/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79a/black-uhuru-20754_ur-eyes_it-s-a-warehouse-of-human-slavery-and-it_1386693.jpg) > [America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/america-my-country-last-nation-on-earth-to-abolish-human-slavery/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f0/edward-abbey-254_abolish_america-my-country-last-nation-on-earth_510236.png) > [The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-fact-is-that-civilization-requires-slaves-human-slavery-is-wrong/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc0/oscar-wilde-16_civilization_the-fact-is-that-civilization-requires-s_3115749.jpg) > [We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-akinola/we-in-africa-are-always-on-the-receiving-end-we-have-had-human/) [Peter Akinola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-akinola/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/058/peter-akinola-34332_church_we-in-africa-are-always-on-the-receiving_2771930.png) > [“In mechanical terms, humans are quite efficient converters of food into energy, so human slaves were often more valuable than animal slaves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-christian/in-mechanical-terms-humans-are-quite-efficient-converters-of-food/) [David Christian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-christian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d28/david-christian-7861_fossil-fuel_in-mechanical-terms-humans-are-quite-eff_1602728.jpg) > [While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-e-lee/while-we-see-the-course-of-the-final-abolition-of-human-slavery-is/) [Robert E. Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-e-lee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83c/robert-e-lee-2368_abolition_while-we-see-the-course-of-the-final-abo_2267716.jpg) > [Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingrid-newkirk/although-we-have-in-theory-abolished-human-slavery-recognized-women-s/) [Ingrid Newkirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingrid-newkirk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/945/ingrid-newkirk-3962_abolish_although-we-have-in-theory-abolished-hum_2419321.png) > [The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/the-most-racist-nastiest-act-by-america-after-human-slavery-was-the/) [Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ac/kurt-vonnegut-41_children_the-most-racist-nastiest-act-by-america_40970.jpg) > [We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-l-francione/we-can-no-more-justify-using-nonhumans-as-human-resources-than-we-can/) [Gary L. Francione](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-l-francione/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/133/gary-l-francione-8902_animal_we-can-no-more-justify-using-nonhumans-a_169932.jpg) > [The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/the-most-racist-nastiest-act-by-the-usa-after-human-slavery-was-the/) [Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/571/kurt-vonnegut-41_bombing_the-most-racist-nastiest-act-by-the-usa_1916228.jpg) > [“Are you so simple as to assume that the Big Surrender banished the concept of human slavery from the earth? What is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zora-neale-hurston/are-you-so-simple-as-to-assume-that-the-big-surrender-banished-the/) [Zora Neale Hurston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zora-neale-hurston/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5df/zora-neale-hurston-923_big-sur_are-you-so-simple-as-to-assume-that-the_475684.jpg) > [“He predicted, I remember, that human slavery would come back, that it had in fact never gone away. He said that so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/he-predicted-i-remember-that-human-slavery-would-come-back-that-it/) [Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a70/kurt-vonnegut-41_poor-people_he-predicted-i-remember-that-human-slave_275629.jpg) > [“It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/it-was-not-until-the-year-1808-that-great-britain-abolished-the-slave/) [Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-g-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76f/robert-g-ingersoll-4527_abraham-lincoln_it-was-not-until-the-year-1808-that-grea_646914.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/human-slavery/#itemlist", "name": "Human Slavery Quotes", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Abraham Lincoln" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/we-were-proclaiming-ourselves-political-hypocrites-before-the-world/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b27/abraham-lincoln-88_fostering_we-were-proclaiming-ourselves-political_253307.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b27/abraham-lincoln-88_fostering_we-were-proclaiming-ourselves-political_253307.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b27/abraham-lincoln-88_fostering_we-were-proclaiming-ourselves-political_253307.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and…” — Abraham Lincoln", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marisol Nichols" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marisol-nichols/we-believe-slavery-was-abolished-with-abraham-lincoln-unfortunately/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bc/marisol-nichols-17883_alive_we-believe-slavery-was-abolished-with-ab_1397395.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bc/marisol-nichols-17883_alive_we-believe-slavery-was-abolished-with-ab_1397395.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bc/marisol-nichols-17883_alive_we-believe-slavery-was-abolished-with-ab_1397395.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.” — Marisol Nichols", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If not now, then when? 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Francione" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-l-francione/we-can-no-more-justify-using-nonhumans-as-human-resources-than-we-can/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/133/gary-l-francione-8902_animal_we-can-no-more-justify-using-nonhumans-a_169932.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/133/gary-l-francione-8902_animal_we-can-no-more-justify-using-nonhumans-a_169932.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/133/gary-l-francione-8902_animal_we-can-no-more-justify-using-nonhumans-a_169932.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and…” — Gary L. 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He said that so many people wanted to come here because it was so easy to rob the poor people, who got absolutely no protection from the Government. He talked about bridges falling down and water mains breaking because of no maintenance. 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