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Slavery Quotes by Booker T. Washington
- I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for…
- Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to…
- You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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… — 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.… — Isaiah Berlin
- You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery… — 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