Slavery Quotes

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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light… — Chinua Achebe
Socialism means slavery. — Lord Acton
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin
Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by… — Isaiah Berlin
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half… — William Blake
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? — W. E. B. Du Bois
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. — W. E. B. Du Bois
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. — Julian Bond
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. — Rita Mae Brown
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds. — Pearl S. Buck
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. — Edmund Burke
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the… — Octavia Butler
Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And… — Herman Cain
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
To some extent I liken slavery to death. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery… — John Henrik Clarke
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent… — Eldridge Cleaver
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. — Maya Angelou
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to… — Maya Angelou

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