Quote by Toni Morrison

“Life is slavery if the courage to die is absent.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Slavery never died, it just changed form.”

— Steven Magee

“Slavery is an element of the human heart...to our ruin.”

— Klaus Kinski

“Perhaps it was not really possible for slavery to die peacefully and quietly, while everyone waited hat in hand for the mills of God…

— Bruce Catton

“...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained…

— Philippe Claudel

“It's better to die free, than live as a slave.”

— Anonymous

“No slave had ever keeled over dead at a spinning wheel or been butchered for a tangle. But nobody wanted to speak on the…

— Colson Whitehead

“To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about…

— Joan Lowery Nixon

“Slavery as we know today is about the mind not the body.”

— Rabbi Gabriel Cousins

“All that a man has in this world is his own will, the freedom to do what he desires. Taking away that is the…

— Alec Hutson

“Oh! How heavily the weight of slavery pressed upon me then. I must toil day after day, endure abuse and taunts and scoffs, sleep…

— Solomon Northup

“It wasn't enough to be alive. Everyone needed something to live for. Or die for.”

— Magnus Flyte