Slave Quotes

1576 Slave quotes by 962 unique authors

In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves. — Alan Keyes
I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education. — Arnold Schoenberg
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror,… — Unknown Author
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them. — George Bernard Shaw
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the… — William Lloyd Garrison
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my… — Lucy Stone
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent,… — Samuel Morse
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. — Nikola Tesla
Luke warm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them… — Francis Chan
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs — Kendrick Lamar
A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. — Margaret Sanger
My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they want. They have… — Michael Parenti
Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are. — William Stafford
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of rendering himself either… — Edward Gibbon
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic,… — Unknown Author
There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house… — Mary Boykin Chesnut
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor. — Benjamin Franklin
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave. — Charles Caleb Colton
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. — Ezra Pound
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
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated… — Abraham Lincoln
John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as the burning sun.… — Frederick Douglass
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor was… — John Coleman
There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union Army… — John Coleman

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