Inspirational Quote by David Graeber

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no…

— C. S. Lewis

“Contrary to Aristotle, there is no known biological difference between slaves and free people.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

— Alfred Marshall

“A slave was cheaper than a mule. Slavery, despicable topic, rarely appeared in poetry or onstage or in the paintings that decorated urns and…

— Eduardo Galeano

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

— Abraham Lincoln

“Aristotle argued that slaves have a ‘slavish nature’ whereas free people have a ‘free nature’. Their status in society is merely a reflection of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

— Victor Hugo

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave…

— Bertrand Russell

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

— Kate Beckinsale

I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.

— Annette Gordon-Reed

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

— Edward Ball

“slavery was a worldwide institution, entrenched on every inhabited continent, subjugating people of every color, language, and religion,”

— Thomas Sowell