Slaves Quotes

696 Slaves quotes by 483 unique authors

It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining… — Kevin Bales
It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves. — Kevin Bales
For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world… — Kevin Bales
Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless… — Ban Ki-moon
Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities have a dominant… — Noam Chomsky
We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. — Abraham Lincoln
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… — Unknown Author
Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under… — Gerry Spence
I have killed, robbed and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine and I would eventually die a… — Sitting Bull
I came here in peace, seeking gold and slaves. — Jack Handey
It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding… — Jane Goodall
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great… — Martin Luther
And we will move forward to our work, not howling out regrets like slaves whipped to their burdens, but with gratitude for a task worthy… — Albert J. Beveridge
There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's… — Kevin Bales
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either… — Aristotle
Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into… — Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Freedom means Freedom for the Group, not Freedom for the Individual. (…) Men must not be slaves to other men, but they must be slaves… — Liang Qichao
You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity. — Henry Highland Garnet
The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by… — Miguel Syjuco
A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the… — Benjamin Franklin
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow. — Jose Rizal
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. — Bertrand Russell
Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free… — Ronald Reagan
We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an… — B. W. Powe
Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted to live as… — Sheikh Abdullah

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