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title: "2,997 Slavery Quotes by 1,518 authors"
description: "Quotes about Slavery compare oppression, legality, and moral contradictions."
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> [Slavery was our nation's original sin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-barr/slavery-was-our-nation-s-original-sin/)

[William Barr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-barr/)

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> [The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rupert-brooke/the-worst-of-slaves-is-he-whom-passion-rules/)

[Rupert Brooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rupert-brooke/)

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> [All religion is slavery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/all-religion-is-slavery/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [There is no slavery but ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/there-is-no-slavery-but-ignorance/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [No pope ever condemned slavery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-mccabe/no-pope-ever-condemned-slavery/)

[Joseph McCabe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-mccabe/)

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> [Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miles-davis/knowledge-is-freedom-and-ignorance-is-slavery/)

[Miles Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miles-davis/)

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> [ \[Slavery\] is a weed that grows in every soil. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/slavery-is-a-weed-that-grows-in-every-soil/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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> [“War is less costly than slavery.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/war-is-less-costly-than-slavery/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/not-easily-may-an-individual-escape-the-deep-slavery-of-the-herd/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

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> [ “\[T\]he West did not invent slavery; the West ended slavery.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-buchanan/t-he-west-did-not-invent-slavery-the-west-ended-slavery/)

[Pat Buchanan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-buchanan/)

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> [The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-worst-thing-about-slavery-is-that-the-slaves-eventually-get-to/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-cowper/freedom-hath-a-thousand-charms-to-show-that-slaves-however-contented/)

[William Cowper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-cowper/)

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> [Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/slavery-was-never-abolished-it-was-only-extended-to-include-all-the/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [“The every day activity of slaves reproduces slavery”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fredy-perlman/the-every-day-activity-of-slaves-reproduces-slavery/)

[Fredy Perlman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fredy-perlman/)

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> [What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinesh-d-souza/what-was-distinctively-western-was-not-slavery-but-the-moral-crusade/)

[Dinesh D'Souza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinesh-d-souza/)

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> [“Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margarita-engle/marriage-without-love-is-just-one-more-twisted-form-of-slavery/)

[Margarita Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margarita-engle/)

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> [Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-charles-carey/then-it-was-that-the-exports-of-slaves-from-virginia-and-the/)

[Henry Charles Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-charles-carey/)

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> [Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-marshall/slavery-was-regarded-by-aristotle-as-an-ordinance-of-nature-and-so/)

[Alfred Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-marshall/)

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> [If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-f-wade/if-a-man-carries-his-horse-out-of-a-slave-state-into-a-free-one-be/)

[Benjamin F. Wade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-f-wade/)

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> [“Thoughtout life, we all live our lives assuming two roles, the role of a slave and the role of a master. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathanael-kanyinga/thoughtout-life-we-all-live-our-lives-assuming-two-roles-the-role-of/)

[Nathanael Kanyinga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathanael-kanyinga/)

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> [I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annette-gordon-reed/i-find-it-more-than-a-little-disingenuous-to-act-as-if-keeping-slaves/)

[Annette Gordon-Reed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annette-gordon-reed/)

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> [Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/life-lived-in-the-absence-of-the-psychedelic-experience-that/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

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> [“I'm capable—" "Three hours after we met, you sold yourself into slavery and then died." Well, yes, it sounded bad when he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilona-andrews/i-m-capable-three-hours-after-we-met-you-sold-yourself-into-slavery/)

[Ilona Andrews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilona-andrews/)

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> [“He was also one of the twelve Presidents of the United States to own slaves, which is a larger figure than the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jarett-kobek/he-was-also-one-of-the-twelve-presidents-of-the-united-states-to-own/)

[Jarett Kobek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jarett-kobek/)

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> [Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-de-leon/each-man-has-an-equal-social-right-to-multiply-his-power-of-motion-by/)

[Daniel De Leon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-de-leon/)

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> [Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/whether-slavery-shall-go-into-nebraska-or-other-new-territories-is/)

[Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/)

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> [Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-gibbon/augustus-was-sensible-that-mankind-is-governed-by-names-nor-was-he/)

[Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-gibbon/)

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> [Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-john-paul-ii/pervading-nationalism-imposes-its-dominion-on-man-today-in-many/)

[Pope John Paul II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-john-paul-ii/)

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> [A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington-carver/a-life-that-stood-out-as-a-gospel-of-self-forgetting-service-he-could/)

[George Washington Carver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington-carver/)

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> [This country was formed for the white not for the black man. And looking upon African slavery from the same stand-point, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-wilkes/this-country-was-formed-for-the-white-not-for-the-black-man-and/)

[John Wilkes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-wilkes/)

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> [In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-stevenson/in-most-places-when-people-hear-about-or-see-something-that-is-a/)

[Bryan Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryan-stevenson/)

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> [ \[...\] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-edward-griffin/it-is-generally-accepted-that-the-civil-war-was-fought-over-the-issue/)

[G. Edward Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-edward-griffin/)

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> [Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-h-stephens/our-new-government-is-founded-upon-exactly-the-opposite-idea-its/)

[Alexander H. Stephens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-h-stephens/)

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> [In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/in-the-form-of-security-and-sufficiency-for-the-men-who-labor-to-the/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

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> [The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-henry-hammond/the-moment-this-house-undertakes-to-legislate-upon-this-subject/)

[James Henry Hammond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-henry-hammond/)

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> [For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-e-williams/for-black-politicians-civil-rights-organizations-and-white-liberals/)

[Walter E. Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-e-williams/)

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> [The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ward-beecher/the-slave-labors-but-with-no-cheer-it-is-not-the-road-to/)

[Henry Ward Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-ward-beecher/)

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> [Life is not given to us that we might live idly without work. No, our life is a struggle and a journey.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-mazzini/life-is-not-given-to-us-that-we-might-live-idly-without-work-no-our/)

[Giuseppe Mazzini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-mazzini/)

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> [You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/you-find-as-you-look-around-the-world-that-every-single-bit-of/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [“An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify animal use, however “humane” it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garylfrancione/an-abolitionist-is-as-i-have-developed-that-notion-one-who-1/)

[GaryLFrancione](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garylfrancione/)

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                        "text": "The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon this floor, I will abandon it the instant the first decisive step is taken looking towards legislation of this subject. I will go home to preach, and if I can, practice, disunion, and civil war, if needs be. A revolution must ensue, and this republic sink in blood.",
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                        "text": "For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement.",
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                        "text": "The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.",
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                        "text": "Life is not given to us that we might live idly without work. No, our life is a struggle and a journey. Goof should struggle with evil; truth should struggle with falsehood; freedom should struggle with slavery; love should struggle with hatred. Life is movement, a walk along the way of life to the fulfillment of those ideas which illuminate us, both in our intellect and in our hearts, with divine light.",
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