Slavery Quotes · Page 50

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

— Beau Willimon

How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked…

— Malcolm X

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble…

— Khalil Gibran

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and…

— Robert E. Lee

Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without…

— Jefferson Davis

“Here we find the roots of American wealth and democracy—in the for-profit destruction of the most important asset available to any people,…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants…

— Anton Chekhov

Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.

— David Batstone

I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day…

— Jefferson Davis

“If you are not strong enough to fight you have no choice but to accept the life of a slave. The hunter…

— Théun Mares

“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians.…

— Jerry Ash

“When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but…

— Colson Whitehead

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

— Wayne Dyer

In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side,…

— Kami Garcia

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

— Douglas Wilder

I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal…

— Quentin Tarantino

May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.

— Pope Francis

It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether…

— Slobodan Milosevic

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

— Paul Beatty

“There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put…

— Henry David Thoreau

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the…

— John Quincy Adams

“He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in…

— Anonymous

How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal;…

— Walter E. Williams

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

— Isabel Wilkerson