Slavery Quotes

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

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

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.

Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

No pope ever condemned slavery.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

All socialism involves slavery.

The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.