Cords Quote by Patricia Hampl

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them…

— William H. Seward

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

— Kailash Satyarthi

Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

— Lupita Nyong'o

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed…

— Millard Fillmore

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the…

— Jane Porter

Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.

— Eugenio Maria de Hostos

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

— Paul Mooney

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

— Abraham Lincoln

It's modern-day slavery.

— Adrian Peterson

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

— Benjamin Franklin

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I've turned those steel…

— Mr. T

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

— Euripides