Slavery Quotes

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Death is better than slavery.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

I come from a country in which human beings are still being bought and sold into slavery.

Slavery still exists today. I am standing before you as living proof. As a slave, I didn't know how to say no, I only knew how to say yes. I was beaten if I didn't say yes loudly enough; I was beaten for no reason at all.

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

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

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!

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.

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.

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.

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

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.

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

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.