Quotes about slavery
slavery care want
No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It only says that you should treat your slaves well. Well, I don't care if you treat them well. How is it possible that it is not immoral to own another person? Why isn't that one of the Ten Commandments? 'Thou shalt not own another person.' You want to sit here and tell me that fornication is worse than owning someone? Mira Sorvino
slavery speak observation
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person. Solomon Northup
slavery sith weakness
The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death. Swami Vivekananda
slavery republican failing
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues. Thomas Paine
slavery fear-of-death
The fear of death is the beginning of slavery. Robert Anton Wilson
slavery hereafter
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. Robert Dale Owen
slavery territory slave
No more slave States and no more slave territory. Salmon P. Chase
slavery sugar pity
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? William Cowper
slavery needs prove
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. Gerrit Smith
slavery suits sometimes
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.
slavery causes influence
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.
slavery theory concern
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
slavery four united-states
The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape. Henry David Thoreau
slavery vote lost
If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote. Jesse Jackson
slavery
Death is better than slavery. Harriet Ann Jacobs
slavery morality making-money
Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished. Frederick Douglass
slavery abolitionist speakers
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
slavery found wanted
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
slavery millions
I hear the mournful wail of millions!
slavery may young
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 spirit hopeless
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. Mika
slavery unemployment periods
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. Julian Bond
slavery unjust superiors
The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior. H. G. Wells
slavery-today people firsts
Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are not captured, they're not knocked over the head, it doesn't follow the old sorts of mechanisms. Kevin Bales
slavery pay clear
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
slavery stealing theft
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
slavery slave masters
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters. Herodotus
slavery institutions thirds
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course. Hilaire Belloc
slavery yoke weak
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
slavery sacred cases
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another? Mary Astell
slavery cages slave
A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave. Mahatma Gandhi
slavery slave chains
No one chains a slave without chaining himself.
slavery way perdition
The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.