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- I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the progress of civilization,…
- If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my…
- If I thought, had any idea, that I'd ever be a slave again, I'd take a gun an' jus end it all right away. Because…
- Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.
- Telling the truth will lead you to freedom; telling the lies will lead you to slavery.
- I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same…
- If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.
- ... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market…
- Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness,…
- Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished: many civilizations have…
- What would New York be without slavery?
- Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three…
- I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the…
- For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro',…
- It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means…
- The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented. Banking was…
- May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice or virtue... In…
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