Best 949 quotes in «slavery quotes» category

People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the "whites only" signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery.

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found wherever men are engaged in activity which is socially serviceable, but whose service they do not understand and have no personal interest in.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn't even say that.

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.

Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

Since Christianity is in fact a slave religion, it is satirical at least to see the negro adopt a slave religion, after chattel slavery was ended. It simply underlines the fact that consciously or unconsciously, weak humans desire the status of sheep, no matter what they say.

Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.

Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development.

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

Slavery is the next thing to hell.

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked.

Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary. The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.

Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to suchI have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,--work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

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.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.