Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

Gerrit Smith

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

Gerrit Smith

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

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Jesse Jackson

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

George Washington

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

George Washington

Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.

George Eliot

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.

Frederick Douglass

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

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

Frederick Douglass

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

Frederick Douglass

I hear the mournful wail of millions!

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Death is better than 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.

H. G. Wells

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)

George Mason

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

Lawrence O'Donnell

Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'

Mira Sorvino

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?

Joseph McCabe

No pope ever condemned 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.

Nikki Giovanni

Death is a slave's freedom.

Mikhail Bakunin

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

Paul Mooney

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

Julian Bond

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Can you get it? (Jaden) If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron) I’d rather trade places with Prometheus and have my innards ripped out every day. (Jaden) So would I. (Acheron)