Slavery Quotes

Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.

It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Slavery is the next thing to hell.

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear.

As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.

I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight.

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

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

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.

All socialism involves slavery.

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.

If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.

Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.

As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.

I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep

The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.

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.

They're not leading our people toward any kind of independence, but they're using their positions and their education and their talent to exploit our people worse than the slave master did during slavery.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another; and whether the form in which slavery exists in the South is not but one modification of this universal condition... Let those who are interested remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.