Slavery Quotes · Page 31

Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.

— William Lloyd Garrison

“Isn't it funny how freedom is only another word for slavery?”

— Lionel Suggs

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

— Herbert Read

“Bravery without sword is like slavery without lord.”

— Deepak Kripal

I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space.

— Mary Roach

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

— Amiri Baraka

Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

— Robert Herrick

“It's not an honour to be saddled wit a foreman's job, it's slavery.”

— Akinbode Oluwaseun Micheal

“She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery— boredom.”

— Patricia Briggs

“Slavery was abolished in 1355 because of church teachings stating that all men are equal in the eyes of God.§”

— Christina Johansson Robinowitz

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

— Gerrit Smith

Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that.

— Freddie Gibbs

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial…

— Robert Mugabe

“We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.

— Sherley Anne Williams

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

— Derrick Bell

More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or…

— Mira Sorvino

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity…

— Emma Goldman

If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church,…

— Bill Ayers

All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of…

— Lysander Spooner

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system,…

— Noam Chomsky

Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as…

— Thomas Sowell

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies…

— Trent Franks

Whenever a Republican gets in office, all of a sudden progressives realize that federalism and state's rights aren't necessarily only about defending…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican…

— Edwidge Danticat

“Ten years ago, I attended a community meeting for an oil pipeline proposal PE was ramming through the environmental impact process in…

— Rachel Grant

As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the…

— Karl Marx

“Under coverture, a wife was required to live where her husband demanded, her earnings belonged to her husband and her children were…

— Carole Pateman

For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if…

— Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

— Frances Harper

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

— Juan Williams

“It is better to die in the field of honour than to live in the chains of slavery;”

— Matthew Henry

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

— John Adams

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

— Abraham Lincoln

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

— Martin Van Buren