Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Caleb Cushing

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.

Elbert Hubbard

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

Aristotle

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

Benjamin Franklin

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

Bob Edwards

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

David Brooks

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

Beau Willimon

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Abraham Lincoln

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

Abraham Lincoln

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

Abraham Lincoln

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Abraham Lincoln

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

Algernon Blackwood

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

Alfred Marshall

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

Albert Einstein

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

Albert Einstein

Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

Abraham Lincoln

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Abraham Lincoln

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

Abraham Lincoln

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

Dinesh D'Souza

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

Dinesh D'Souza

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

Desmond Tutu

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

Andy Borowitz

Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.

Daniel Webster

I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

Angela Davis

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.

Cornel West

He who learns death unlearns slavery.

Mika

Life without hope, the slavery of mankind-a bondage so hopeless that slaves will no longer know they are slaves. Wealth without happiness, abundance without the power to enjoy it. The death of the spirit.

Karl Marx

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

Mikhail Bakunin

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

Patrick Henry

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.

Juan Williams

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.