Slavery Quotes · Page 25

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

— John Quincy Adams

“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.”

— International Reading Association Reading Today Online

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

— Rita Mae Brown

“Such finery, paid for at the small cost of human lives and dignity.”

— Alyssa Cole

I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name.

— Jamaal Bowman

[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

— Ezola B. Foster

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

— Nikki Giovanni

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide…

— Alicia Garza

“Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.”

— John Adams

Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he…

— Dave Chappelle

When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

— Joseph Sobran

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

— Malcolm X

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since…

— Zach Braff

It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have…

— William Lloyd Garrison

Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to…

— Henry David Thoreau

The history of slavery and the complication of slavery is that it is an international concept. It is something that affected people…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp…

— Tacitus

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being…

— Oscar Wilde

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains…

— Idries Shah

Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is…

— Elizabeth Van Lew

“But who would build the roads if there were no government? You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this…

— Larken Rose

I know some African-Americans, they happen to be conservative, they're successful. They, of course, have raised their kids, and kids can't escape…

— Rush Limbaugh

“South. In southern courtrooms and medical journals, slaves' misbehavior was often attributed to an inward disposition of character, which meant that there…

— Walter Johnson

“Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all…

— Liezi

“Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom…

— Siddharth Kara

“Of course, the political history of the United States is exactly the reverse. It is in large measure the history of a…

— David Horowitz

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether…

— Samuel Johnson

“The bonds of dependence, far from loosening, have tightened again. But alongside force there is no longer authority, alongside obedience, no longer…

— Julius Evola

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

— Aeschylus

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

— Anonymous

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

— Assata Shakur

'In the Pines' is a very old song dating back to slavery. Lead Belly made it popular.

— Fantastic Negrito

“You cannot discover your soul under the shackles of slavery.”

— Saptadeep Basu and Mamta Sharma

“The thing about the black market is, it’s racist. White children make useful slaves, too.”

— M.C. Humphreys

Telling the truth will lead you to freedom; telling the lies will lead you to slavery.

— Jamison Green