Quotes about slavery
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 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 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 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
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 prometheus artemis
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) Sherrilyn Kenyon
slavery slave
Death is a slave's freedom. Nikki Giovanni
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 relation private-property
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 stardom gilded
Stardom can be a gilded slavery. Helen Hayes
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 destruction witness
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery! John Brown
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 republican founders
The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more. Michele Bachmann
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 pope
No pope ever condemned slavery. Joseph McCabe
slavery unions fruit
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union. Terry Eagleton
slavery hereafter
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. Robert Dale Owen