Quotes about slavery
slavery hereafter
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. Robert Dale Owen
slavery constitution worried
Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change. Whoopi Goldberg
slavery cages slave
A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave. Mahatma Gandhi
slavery defeat teach
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery. Juan Williams
slavery levels remember
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it. Paul Mooney
slavery care want
No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It only says that you should treat your slaves well. Well, I don't care if you treat them well. How is it possible that it is not immoral to own another person? Why isn't that one of the Ten Commandments? 'Thou shalt not own another person.' You want to sit here and tell me that fornication is worse than owning someone? Mira Sorvino
slavery unions fruit
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
slavery twins trouble
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert) Lucy Maud Montgomery
slavery slave masters
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters. Herodotus
slavery institutions thirds
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course. Hilaire Belloc
slavery yoke weak
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
slavery states mankind
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. George Mason
slavery driven form
I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms. Caleb Cushing
slavery aristocratic
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
slavery cost hours
When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life. Abraham Lincoln
slavery politics compromise
I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises. Daniel Webster
slavery republican failing
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues. Thomas Paine
slavery fear-of-death
The fear of death is the beginning of slavery. Robert Anton Wilson
slavery sith weakness
The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death. Swami Vivekananda
slavery speak observation
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person. Solomon Northup
slavery prometheus artemis
Can you get it? (Jaden) If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron) I’d rather trade places with Prometheus and have my innards ripped out every day. (Jaden) So would I. (Acheron) Sherrilyn Kenyon
slavery firsts subjugation
They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor EXPLOITATION, the other recourse is EXTERMINATION. Marcus Garvey
slavery republican founders
The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more. Michele Bachmann
slavery world illegal
Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world. Lisa Kristine
slavery sacred cases
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another? Mary Astell
slavery vote lost
If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote. Jesse Jackson
slavery aversion kind
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion. George Washington
slavery unions principles
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.
slavery abolitionist speakers
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker. Frederick Douglass
slavery thrive unlearn
He who learns death unlearns slavery. Cornel West