Slavery Quotes

• Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.

  

  Paul Robeson
  • Freedom
  • Artist
  • Choice

• 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

• If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music - that would be the space we'd find American landays in.

  

  Eliza Griswold
  • Music
  • Poems
  • Populations

• The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Generations
  • Century
  • Welfare

• The main challenge Not For Sale is big and it is modern day slavery, which is a $32billion dollar industry second to the illegal trade of drugs and arms.

  

  David Batstone
  • Challenge
  • Slavery
  • Drugs

• 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

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

  

  Prince
  • Slavery
  • Word
  • Record contracts

• 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

• 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 prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Woman
  • Slavery
  • Human History

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

  

  Stephen Douglas
  • Police
  • Slavery
  • Exist

• Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Violence
  • Modern
  • Soviet

• Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Slavery
  • Labor
  • Lincoln

• [...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Truth
  • War
  • Issues

• A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Slavery

• Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters

  

  George Fitzhugh
  • Slavery
  • Masters
  • Abolishing

• 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

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

  

  Gerrit Smith
  • War
  • Peace
  • Slavery

• Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Kind
  • Government
  • Progress

• 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

• It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness that results from a well-tempered society founded on mutual esteem. But the injury done my country, and the chains of slavery forging for all posterity, calls me forth to defend our common rights, and repel the bold invaders of the sons of freedom.

  

  Nathanael Greene
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Slavery

• When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.

  

  Niger Innis
  • Responsibility
  • Happiness
  • Born

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

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Slavery

• So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam, our true religion, and we've been made deaf, dumb, and blind in slavery.And Elijah Muhammad was taught by Allah, who we refer to as God, to teach us the truth that will free us.And when I heard it, I've been free ever since. I have no racial problems, I don't go where I'm not wanted.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • God
  • Language
  • Problems

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