Quotes about slavery
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 world illegal
Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world. Lisa Kristine
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 twins trouble
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) Lucy Maud Montgomery
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 states mankind
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. George Mason
slavery lineage criminals
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.' Lawrence O'Donnell
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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