Slavery Quotes

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

Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.

Thomas Sowell
- World
- Together
- Religious
Even though Pope Urban VIII reversed the pronouncements of his predecessors by declaring slavery unacceptable in the mid-seventeenth century, the vast majority of Protestant Christians in America considered slavery and white supremacy to be absolutely consistent with “biblical” Christianity. It would take American Protestants over a hundred years to make slavery history. Even then, they would find ways to cleverly camouflage the old Doctrine of Discovery and its white supremacist scaffolding under distinctly American terms like Manifest Destiny and American exceptionalism, terms still celebrated in many sectors of US society today.

Brian D. McLaren
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
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Thomas Carlyle
- Evil
- Enjoying
- Reducing
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
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

John Quincy Adams
- Slavery