Freedom Quote by Seneca the Younger

“While all men want to be free, some want to be free to think what they want, and other men want to be free…

— Jarod Kintz

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

— Anonymous

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as…

— Thomas Clarkson

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the…

— Upton Sinclair

“How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.”

— Colson Whitehead

“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

“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”

— Pierce Brown

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

— Dinesh D'Souza

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

— Alfred Marshall

“I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains.... But when I see…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau