Slavery Quotes

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

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

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

This war is not about slavery.

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

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

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

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

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.

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

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

Socialism means slavery.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

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

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and 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.

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.