Degrees Quote by Lysander Spooner

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be…

— Thomas Clarkson

Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use are means…

— John Keegan

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than…

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To…

— Fulton J. Sheen

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

— Anonymous

Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion…

— John Brown

My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of…

— Wole Soyinka

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

— Leo Tolstoy

This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this…

— Ludwig von Mises

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute…

— Anonymous

Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to become slaves?…

— Alexander Hamilton