Alternative-history Quote by Kim Newman

A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I pity the…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman. There…

— Frederick Douglass

“If one truly believes in freedom, how can one welcome the notion of slavery from either traditional masters or temperance-wielding masters disguised as servants?”

— Joshua Emmet

No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If any one thing in my experience, more than another, served to deepen my conviction of the infernal character of slavery, and to fill…

— Frederick Douglass

“Slavery is not the same as rain,” she insisted. “I have been rained on and I have been sold. It is not the same.…

— George R.R. Martin

“It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our poor be…

— Charles Darwin

“To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all…

— Bertrand Russell

The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.

— James Mansfield

“the slave preaches the virtues of kindness and humility to his master, because as a slave he has need of them;but the master, better…

— Marquis de Sade

“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