Quotes about slavery
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 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 republican founders
The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more. Michele Bachmann
slavery world illegal
Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world. Lisa Kristine
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 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 constitution worried
Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change. Whoopi Goldberg
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 france mexico
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can. William H. Seward
slavery wrecks growing
The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment. William Dean Howells
slavery territory slave
No more slave States and no more slave territory. Salmon P. Chase
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 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 sugar pity
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? William Cowper