Slavery Quotes

• In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do 10 minutes on the civil rights era and 40 minutes on Martin Luther King, and that's it.

  Colson Whitehead
  • King
  • Slavery

• There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.

  

  Plato
  • Exercise
  • Slavery
  • Lessons

• True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

  

  Gerrit Smith
  • War
  • Peace
  • Slavery

• This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Liberty
  • Slavery
  • Thinkers

• Alone among the societies that abolished slavery in the nineteenth century, the United States, for a moment, offered the freedmen a measure of political control over their own destinies.

  

  Eric Foner
  • United States
  • Destinies
  • Political Control

• There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Slavery

• Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.”

  

  Alexander H. Stephens
  • Slavery
  • Equal
  • Condition

• My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • America
  • War
  • Beginning

• The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • World
  • Power
  • Freedom

• In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Slavery

• Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

  

  Edward Ball
  • Different
  • America
  • Slavery

• Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Progress
  • Slavery
  • Regression

• Whatever Lincoln's racial views, which are not totally modern and egalitarian in many ways, he believes blacks should have this natural right to improve their condition in life and slavery denies that to them.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Improve
  • Racial
  • Egalitarian

• We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • War
  • Conflict
  • Inevitable

• If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace slave labor? What system of race relations is going to replace the race relations of slavery? Who is going to have power in the post-war South? The Emancipation Proclamation doesn't answer that question, but it throws it open.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Labor
  • Relations
  • Emancipation

• Freedom and slavery are mental states.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Slavery
  • States

• If you want to understand America, it's slavery.

  Colson Whitehead
  • America
  • Slavery

• Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Slavery

• Our touchstones of slavery are 'Song of the South,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'The Birth of a Nation.' It's hard to separate the cinematic quality from the underlying themes. I appreciate the films, but the message was repugnant.

  

  John Ridley
  • Song
  • Quality
  • Wind

• I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that the Civil War was the end of slavery, and the triumph of our collective conscience and humanity over oppression. Sadly, the oppression and systemic subjugation of people of color in this country still exists.

  

  Bryce Pinkham
  • Slavery
  • Civil War
  • Lingering effects

• It's easy to lose a civilization. The values of Western civilization have brought so much good to the world: the notions of equality, democracy, tolerance, abolition of slavery... Tolkien knew that civilization is worth fighting for. There are times when a generation is challenged and must fight to defend their civilization from annihilation.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • World
  • Good
  • Fighting

• Work without love is slavery.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Work
  • Slavery

• I've never taught one, because if I taught one, I'd have to teach others... I would give myself over to a slavery, whereas I want to stay a free man.

  

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • Free
  • Slavery

• Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of effect, and been legally void, because slavery then had no constitutional existence to be recognized.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Slavery

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