Character Quote by Charles Sumner

“Slavery is simply a possession of the mind, before the individual submits their spiritual component to the will of another person or deity.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

— Kedar Joshi

A real man is a slave of beneficiency.

— Meekness Tapera

“A man could be outwardly obedient, but tardiness revealed his inner determination, proof that slavery affects only the body. It does not include possession…

— Stephen P. Kiernan

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

— John Adams

“Man cannot relinquish himself or the place in the visible world that belongs to him; he cannot become the slave of things, the slave…

— John Paul II

“We have already observed that by excluding the immense majority of the human species from its midst, by keeping this majority outside the reciprocal…

— Mikhail Bakunin

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

— Anonymous

“Having made man in His own image, a rational being, He meant him to be lord only over irrational beings: not man set over…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature, opposition to it in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that it excluded…

— Hannah Arendt

Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is…

— Isabella Bird