Slavery Quotes

• I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?

  

  Angelina Grimke
  • Children
  • Why
  • Friends

• The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion - this is the worst form of woman slavery our time has created.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Time
  • Family
  • Slavery

• 'Man's inhumanity to man' is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Truth
  • Struggle
  • Lies

• My inclination is to whip the rebellion into submission, preserving all Constitutional rights. If it cannot be whipped any other way than through a war against slavery, let it come to to that legitimately. If it is necessary that slavery should fall that the Republic may continue its existence, let slavery go.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • May
  • War
  • Fall

• Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Slavery
  • Constitution
  • Silenced

• The Aristocratic Institutions of England had acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America...in demoralising large classes outside their own special boundaries...in producing a long habit of submission...and in enfeebling by corrupting those who should assail them.

  

  John Bright
  • Long
  • America
  • Habit

• If a parent wants to talk about slavery or wants to talk about countries where bombs go off, they need to have a way - a setting - to have that conversation. And there are wonderful books out there for those kinds of conversations.

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Slavery

• I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • God
  • Slavery

• Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Slavery

• Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Power
  • Beautiful
  • Slavery

• 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.

  

  Kevin Bales
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

  

  Jim Webb
  • History
  • Black
  • Period

• Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

  

  Angela Davis
  • America
  • Death
  • Penalty

• 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
  • Why
  • Slavery

• If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Freedom
  • Slavery
  • Creature

• In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

  

  Tacitus
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Peace

• Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

  

  Wilhelm Steinitz
  • Game
  • Reflection
  • Research

• It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Law
  • Absence
  • Southern

• It was his peculiar doctrine that a man has a perfect right to interfere by force with the slaveholder, in order to rescue the slave. I agree with him. They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Death
  • Perfect
  • Slavery

• My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Destroy
  • Union
  • Paramount

• Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • She
  • Together
  • Courage

• To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

  

  Derrick Jensen
  • Believe
  • Slavery

• Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • World
  • Long
  • Mind

• Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Movie

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