Civilized Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible.…

— Muhammad Yunus

Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should…

— Leo Tolstoy

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which…

— John C. Calhoun

“For its own sake, a civilized community could no more disregard equity than it dare tolerate an imperfect drainage system.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm…

— John Stuart Mill

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm…

— John Stuart Mill

“We went down into the dungeons where the captives were held. There was a church above one of the dungeons -- which tells you…

— Barack H. Obama

Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

— William Cowper

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

— Paul Robeson