Slavery Quotes · Page 15

“No knowledge about self is self-slavery!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

All religion is slavery.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There is no slavery but ignorance.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Slavery was our nation's original sin.

— William Barr

The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.

— Rupert Brooke

No pope ever condemned slavery.

— Joseph McCabe

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

— Miles Davis

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

— Edmund Burke

If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.

— Kevin Bales

Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.

— Robert Hayden

If we don't unite, chances are we will go back into slavery.

— John Henrik Clarke

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

— Franz Grillparzer

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

— John Denham

“Being a slave is to have nothing but still having something left to lose.”

— Lalita Tedemy

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

— Anonymous

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders…

— Anonymous

Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?

— Juana Inés de la Cruz

The evil of slavery and colonialism was that these oppressions kept their victims out of history, disconnected them from the evolutionary struggle.

— Shelby Steele

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice.

— Abraham Lincoln

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

— Dan Savage

We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

— Ava DuVernay

So when the slaves got back from the fields, they was too tired to revolt against they masters. So what we're sayin'…

— Soulja Boy

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

— Catherine Wilson

“By the time of the Revolution there was in each colony an accumulated body of slave law that did not so much…

— Don E. Fehrenbacher

“Untouchability shuts all doors of opportunities for betterment in life for Untouchables. It does not offer an Untouchable any opportunity to move…

— B.R. Ambedkar

I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to…

— Kara Walker

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever…

— Anonymous

“A slave lacks incentives; for him it is better to work slowly and badly, since his effort benefits only the master, but…

— Isabel Allende

Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society…

— Fred Moten and Stefano Harney

Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is…

— Sri Yukteswar Giri

“There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Enslaved to passing shadows. My dreams fade further away. I Begin to hear the faintest mumbles drone within my ear. These voices…

— JMartinez

... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it.…

— Joycelyn Elders

If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine,…

— Mary Griffith

“Writer Brigid Brophy exposes [their motives] with great precision: "Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are…

— Peter cox

I suspect, too, that the modern debates represent the effort of candidates with widely-varying constituencies and special interests to please to tip…

— Allen C. Guelzo

We certainly did take the country from the Indians. Right. So, but what's going on here, as I would call it a,…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end…

— Unita Blackwell