Slavery Quotes · Page 24

Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know

— William Cowper

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

— Charles Bukowski

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

— Algernon Blackwood

“[T]he West did not invent slavery; the West ended slavery.”

— Pat Buchanan

“You would really sacrifice your pride over the fate of a handful of slaves?”

— C.S. Pacat

“Workers who pick the food we eat cannot afford to feed themselves.”

— Barry Estabrook

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

— Diogenes

“It’s just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It’s always the lesser of two evils.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Ni dieu ni maître! (Neither God nor master) [Feminist and labour slogan translated to 'No gods, no masters']”

— Anonymous

Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many…

— Nikki Giovanni

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

— Kailash Satyarthi

No, Islam did not free African-Americans from slavery, not in Africa and not in Europe or America. Evangelical Christianity did that.

— Tom Tancredo

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the…

— Angelina Grimke

“His captors asked why he, a nonslaveholder, was fighting to uphold slavery. He replied: “I’m fighting because you’re down here.”7”

— James M. McPherson

In truth there is only one freedom - the holy freedom of Christ, whereby He freed us from sin, from evil, from…

— Justin Popovic

“Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible’s approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of…

— Steven Pinker

“Slavery is as old as civilization, and has been practiced all over the world. It was ubiquitous in antiquity, and is taken…

— David Livingstone Smith

The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes…

— Friedrich Engels

Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which…

— John J. Crittenden

There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days…

— Angela Davis

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not;…

— Henry Charles Carey

I look at history, there's not a government on the planet I respect. No country in history was ever safe to its…

— Patch Adams

“I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor.…

— Frederick Douglass

The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about…

— Jerry Pinkney

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The tightly intertwined stories of the white working class and black Americans go back to the prehistory of the United States—and the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting…

— Woodrow Wilson

“The Matrix can feel like a pretty hopeless place. I get that. Nobody in his or her right mind (a tiny minority,…

— Sol Luckman

And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and…

— Sojourner Truth

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

— Karl Marx

“Job and salary is the greatest slavery you can ever set upon yourself”

— Sunday Adelaja

“When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.”

— J.S.B. Morse

Nobody can make you free if you wish to remain a slave.

— Anonymous

“power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.”

— Euripides

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

— Swami Vivekananda

A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

— Robert Ripley

Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.

— Larry Wilmore