Half Quote by Abraham Lincoln

If we don't unite, chances are we will go back into slavery.

— John Henrik Clarke

We must work together, across nations and sectors. Only then will we consign the hideous crime of slavery to the history books.

— Penny Mordaunt

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

— Abraham Lincoln

“How could you have a slogan like “freedom is slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished?”

— George Orwell

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

— David Brion Davis

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

— Angelina Grimke

“This is the struggle of every person: be free or be a slave.”

— Pope Francis

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

— Garry Wills

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

— William H. Seward

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We believe that no nation can survive politically free but economically enslaved.

— Tommy Douglas

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep

— John Dickinson