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Slavery Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
- In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is…
- The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a…
- I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
More Slavery Quotes
- 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