Christianity Quote by Tom Metzger

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and…

— Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

“Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible’s approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of preserving the…

— Steven Pinker

“Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favourable to tyranny that it always profits by such a régime. Genuine Christians are…

— Rousseau Jean-Jacques

“Just listen to Frederick Douglass, a nineteenth-century slave who taught himself how to read and write, as he expresses his view of how Christian…

— Gregory A. Boyd

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting…

— Emma Goldman

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere…

— Charles Sumner

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

— Derrick Jensen

“The greatest abuse of all-the slave trade-was ended as a direct result of the political influence of evangelical Christians in Britain, who were connected…

— Thomas Sowell

“If everyone was so keen to Christianize the slaves, why weren’t they taught to read the Bible for themselves?”

— Sue Monk Kidd

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

— Emma Goldman

“Slavery is simply a possession of the mind, before the individual submits their spiritual component to the will of another person or deity.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo