Adults Quote by Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

— Plato

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each…

— Lysander Spooner

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

— Plato

It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who…

— Ousmane Sembene

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

— Paul Mooney

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows…

— Henry David Thoreau

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can…

— Samuel Johnson

Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is…

— Isabella Bird

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be…

— Thomas Paine

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice…

— Robert Charles Winthrop

Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community,…

— Hillary Clinton

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

— Niccolo Machiavelli