Quotes about slavery
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 should transmit
We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery. Patrick Henry
slavery defeat teach
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery. Juan Williams
slavery states domination
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. Mikhail Bakunin
slavery fancy facts
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. R. Buckminster Fuller
slavery might resistance
When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace. Marcus Tullius Cicero
slavery sometimes should
He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.
slavery levels remember
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it. Paul Mooney
slavery slave
Death is a slave's freedom. Nikki Giovanni
slavery losing poor
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk. Michel de Montaigne
slavery aversion kind
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion. George Washington
slavery unions principles
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.
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.
slavery moral accepted
As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery. Emma Goldman
slavery firsts subjugation
They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor EXPLOITATION, the other recourse is EXTERMINATION. Marcus Garvey