Slavery Quotes
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Religion and slavery are incompatible.
Babasaheb
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My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
Basmah bint Saud -
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.
Abraham Lincoln -
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
Bill Frist -
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.
John Wycliffe -
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
Dan Savage -
He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!
Albert Camus
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Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.
William Shakespeare -
When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
Karl Marx -
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
I shall honour the Quakers for their noble Effort to abolish Slavery. It is equally calculated to promote moral & political Good.
Patrick Henry -
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
Friedrich Engels
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I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova -
The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.
H. G. Wells -
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
Kailash Satyarthi -
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -
The people must have the opportunity to vote for the liberation from slavery and blackmail imposed by technocrats in Brussels to return sovereignty to the country.
Marine Le Pen -
Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
Derrick Bell
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The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The Confederacy was so entwined with the idea of preserving slavery that the flag, even today, can evoke racial polarization...
Victor Davis Hanson -
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
Gail Collins -
Tammany Hall and slavery usually found 'The Herald' on their side.
Elmer Davis