Slaves Quotes
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Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.
Aime Martin
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Although Christianity has a poor record on animals (as it does, it must be said, on the treatment of slaves, women, children, and gays), it is also the case that Christian theology, when creatively and critically handled, can provide a strong basis for animal rights.
Andrew Linzey
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose than putting value on human life.
Virginia Williams
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I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.
Regina Spektor
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Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.
Bion of Borysthenes
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Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life.
Abigail Padgett
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
Herodotus
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I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln
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God brought African slaves to America so that their descendants would know freedom.
Ezola B. Foster
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Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.
Ned Sublette
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Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert Camus
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Already in the 1550s, 10% of Lisbon’s population were slaves; by 1800 there were close to a million slaves among the 2,500,000 or so inhabitants of Portugal’s Brazil.
Benedict Anderson
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There is a word for people who are kept safe, fed, clothed, housed and sustained fully by others, and that word is SLAVES.
Bill Whittle
