Slavery Quotes

• To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Work
  • Father
  • Profession

• With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans wish to project their historical guilt on to someone else.

  

  Andrew Roberts
  • Slavery
  • Project
  • Guilt

• Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Slavery

• Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.

  

  Michelle Alexander
  • Groups
  • Institutions
  • Crow

• I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Wish
  • Mean

• Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Reason

• All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • War
  • Slavery
  • Relentless

• Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious country. We kicked out the master. Now here comes the government telling us to humbly bow again.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Country
  • Prayer
  • Atheism

• Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • World
  • Today
  • Liberty

• The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • God
  • Women
  • Money

• In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

  

  William Weld
  • Government
  • Slavery
  • Century

• Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Dog
  • Slave

• Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Slavery

• The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Control
  • Desire
  • Slavery

• Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.

  

  Stephen Douglas
  • Police
  • Slavery
  • Exist

• The United States was not the only nation to experience emancipation in the nineteenth century. Neither plantation slavery nor abolition were unique to the United States. But Reconstruction was.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Experience
  • United States
  • Emancipation

• Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Justice
  • Rich
  • Forgotten

• I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Love
  • Jesus
  • Praying

• Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Freedom
  • Slavery
  • Exist

• I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason for the planting and spreading of slavery.

  

  Albert G. Brown
  • Want
  • Slavery
  • Planting

• Life without the courage to die is slavery.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Die
  • Slavery

• I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.

  

  Bob Matsui
  • Slavery
  • Consequences
  • Dialogue

• The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that the left has spawned. That the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of discrimination, has disintegrated in the wake of the liberal welfare states is only one example.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Vision
  • Danger
  • Welfare

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