Best 949 quotes in «slavery quotes» category

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.

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)

Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.

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

He who learns death unlearns slavery.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

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.

Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.

How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history?

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much-lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that "all men are born equal.

I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians.

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.

If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?

If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.

If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.

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

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music - that would be the space we'd find American landays in.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then let them continue the issue of currency control and regulate the money supply of the nation.

I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where, uh, we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous.

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight.

I have made some enemies. My enemies in the southern states consisted of those who oppressed the black slave. My enemies in the north are among those who would perpetuate the slavery of the wage workers