Slavery famous quotes

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Men #Wish #Slavery

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Believe #Purpose #Slavery

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Presidential #Slavery

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Liberty #Slavery #Prosperity

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
-- Aeschylus

#Yoke #Slavery

I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery
-- Ahlam Mosteghanemi

#Dream #Waiting #Slavery

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.
-- Ahmed Sekou Toure

#Liberty #Slavery #Riches

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
-- Al Sharpton

#Long #Racism #Slavery

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
-- Alan Keyes

#Animal #Abuse #Slavery

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
-- Albert Camus

#War #Boredom #Slavery

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
-- Alexander Herzen

#Order #Civilization #Slavery

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#Freedom #Equality #Slavery

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

#Slavery #Slave

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
-- Algernon Blackwood

#Slavery #May #Individual

Greed is permanent slavery
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Greed #Insightful #Slavery

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.
-- Alveda King

#Racism #Gone #Slavery

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Machines #World #Slavery

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
-- Andrew Young

#Black #Slavery #Welfare

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
-- Andy Warhol

#Art #Slavery #Born

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
-- Angela Davis

#Slavery #Constitution #Crime

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
-- Angela Davis

#America #Slavery #Death Penalty

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Slavery

A slave is but half a man.
-- Aristophanes

#Men #Half #Slavery

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.
-- Aristotle

#Slavery #Slave #Worst

When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.
-- August Bebel

#Church #Vigor #Slavery

The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.
-- Ayn Rand

#Champion #Majority #Slavery

Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?
-- Barack Obama

#Children #Slavery #Scripture

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Men #Giving #Slavery

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Slavery #States

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
-- Barry Goldwater

#Men #Slavery #Conservative

Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery,
-- Benjamin Carson

#Thinking #Obamacare #Slavery

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.
-- Benjamin E. Mays

#Spiritual #World #Slavery

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.
-- Benjamin F. Wade

#Men #Slavery #Amazed

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?
-- Benjamin Tucker

#Voting #Slavery #Privilege

The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended too.
-- Benjamin Zephaniah

#Animal #People #Slavery

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
-- Bernard Bailyn

#Slavery #Libertarian #Firsts

When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.
-- Bernard Hopkins

#Motivation #Smart #Slavery

We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.
-- Bertrand de Jouvenel

#Art #Slavery #Invasion

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Class #Community #Slavery

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.
-- Bill T. Jones

#Memories #Slavery #Remember

As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.
-- Butterfly McQueen

#Slavery #Ancestor

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Ideas #Slavery #Belief

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Men #People #Slavery

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
-- Caleb Cushing

#House #Matter #Slavery

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
-- Caleb Cushing

#Slavery #Driven #Form

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.
-- Carl Sagan

#Reading #Taught #Slavery

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
-- Carter G. Woodson

#Failure #Government #Slavery

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Color #Slavery

When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.
-- Charles Eisenstein

#Survival #Scarcity #Slavery

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.
-- Charles Rangel

#African American #Challenges #Slavery

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.
-- Charles Sumner

#People #Slavery #Congress

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
-- Chiwetel Ejiofor

#Slavery #England #Invention

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Luxury #Slavery

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Ideas #Slavery

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
-- Dan Savage

#War #Slavery #Justified

In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.
-- David Limbaugh

#Country #Cuba #Slavery

Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.
-- Dennis Green

#Thinking #Slavery #Taste

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

#Believe #Thinking #Slavery

Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery , the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritrocracy, theocracy, oligarchy, governments, patriarchy, matriarchy, monarchy, oligarchy, protection rackets, intimidation by gangsters, and every other kind of coercive institution. In other words, anarchism opposes government in all it's forms.
-- Donald Rooum

#Army #Government #Slavery

Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.
-- Douglas Wilder

#Usa #Slavery #Involvement

Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.
-- Elizabeth Keckley

#Self #Important #Slavery

I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight.
-- Ella Baker

#Leader #Culture #Slavery

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... . Better to die than to live in slavery.
-- Emmeline Pankhurst

#Fighting #Feminism #Slavery

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.
-- Eric Gill

#Men #Doe #Slavery

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.
-- Ernest Becker

#Guilt #Slavery #Kind

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
-- Ernestine Rose

#Principles #Half #Slavery

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.
-- Ernestine Rose

#Together #Slavery

You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.
-- Eugene V. Debs

#Slavery #Needs #Fit

Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.
-- Eugenio Maria de Hostos

#Needs #Slavery #Shapes

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
-- Euripides

#Freedom #Literature #Slavery

The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.
-- Eustace Mullins

#War #Causes #Slavery

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.
-- Evan Esar

#Work #Men #Slavery

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.
-- Flora Tristan

#Intellectual #Slavery #England

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
-- Franz Grillparzer

#Hands #Mind #Slavery

Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.
-- Frederic Bastiat

#Suffering #Slavery #Protection

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.
-- Frederick Douglass

#War #Slavery #May

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
-- Frederick Douglass

#Slavery #Slave #Found

The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
-- Friedrich Engels

#Slavery #Relation #Property

The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.
-- G. Edward Griffin

#War #Issues #Slavery

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Faith #Emotional #Slavery

The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Ignorance #People #Slavery

The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Leader #Trying #Slavery

Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
-- Gary Haugen

#Slavery #Modern #Things Happen

Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery,
-- Gary Haugen

#World #Slavery #Injustice

Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.
-- Gary L. Francione

#Animal #Rights #Slavery

If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.
-- Gary Yourofsky

#Views #Looks #Slavery

Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.
-- George Clymer

#Slavery #Next #Constitution

My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.
-- George Edward Woodberry

#Hero #College #Slavery

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
-- George Eliot

#Slavery #May #Young

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.
-- George Mason

#Art #Slavery #Discouraging

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
-- George Mason

#Slavery #States #Mankind

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.
-- George Mason

#Art #Tyrants #Slavery

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.
-- George Orwell

#Animal #Slavery #Misery

Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.
-- George Orwell

#World #Slavery #May

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.
-- Germaine Greer

#World #Slavery #Abandonment

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
-- Gerrit Smith

#Judging #Slavery #May

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
-- Gerrit Smith

#War #Slavery #Occasions

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.
-- Gerrit Smith

#Suits #Slavery #Sometimes

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
-- Gerrit Smith

#Causes #Slavery #Influence

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
-- Gerrit Smith

#Slavery #Theory #Concern