Abolitionist Quote by Elizabeth Van Lew

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I…

— Charles Sumner

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part,…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing…

— Aristotle

In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, and a slave obeys!

— Anonymous

“Love is to be feared by power because it leads to rebellion. “Why do slaves love?” asked ex-slave Harriet Jacobs and I think the…

— Rod Dubey

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…

— Noam Chomsky

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

— Diogenes

Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's…

— W. H. Auden

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part,…

— Thomas Jefferson

If you are still a slave can not control your ambition

— Mak_786

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

— George Mason

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant,…

— William Hazlitt