Top Slavery Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Slavery quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Robert Anton Wilson
The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Collection: Slavery
Image of Dar Williams
Slavery doesn't have any positives.
- Dar Williams
Collection: Slavery
Image of Harriet Tubman
Slavery is the next thing to hell.
- Harriet Tubman
Collection: Slavery
Image of Algernon Blackwood
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
- Algernon Blackwood
Collection: Slavery
Image of Lawrence Hill
We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.
- Lawrence Hill
Collection: Slavery
Image of Salmon P. Chase
No more slave States and no more slave territory.
- Salmon P. Chase
Collection: Slavery
Image of Mary Virginia Terhune
Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her behalf, and agitations for her advancement and developmentthan for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.
- Mary Virginia Terhune
Collection: Slavery
Image of Kathryn Lindskoog
Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery; and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom.
- Kathryn Lindskoog
Collection: Slavery
Image of Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.
- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Collection: Slavery
Image of Frances Harper
Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.
- Frances Harper
Collection: Slavery
Image of Dinesh D'Souza
...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.
- Dinesh D'Souza
Collection: Slavery
Image of Dinesh D'Souza
What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.
- Dinesh D'Souza
Collection: Slavery
Image of Gary Haugen
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
- Gary Haugen
Collection: Slavery
Image of Kevin Bales
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
- Kevin Bales
Collection: Slavery
Image of Kevin Bales
Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about
- Kevin Bales
Collection: Slavery
Image of Kevin Bales
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
- Kevin Bales
Collection: Slavery
Image of Larry Wilmore
Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.
- Larry Wilmore
Collection: Slavery
Image of Chiwetel Ejiofor
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
Collection: Slavery
Image of Bernard Bailyn
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
- Bernard Bailyn
Collection: Slavery
Image of Colson Whitehead
The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.
- Colson Whitehead
Collection: Slavery
Image of Walter Rodney
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?
- Walter Rodney
Collection: Slavery
Image of Granville Sharp
A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.
- Granville Sharp
Collection: Slavery
Image of Mutabaruka
Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.
- Mutabaruka
Collection: Slavery
Image of Lalita Tademy
This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.
- Lalita Tademy
Collection: Slavery
Image of Perry Marshall
How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history?
- Perry Marshall
Collection: Slavery
Image of Beau Willimon
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
- Beau Willimon
Collection: Slavery
Image of Louis J. Halle
It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.
- Louis J. Halle
Collection: Slavery
Image of Dan Geer
The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.
- Dan Geer
Collection: Slavery
Image of Samuel Sharpe
I would rather die upon yonder gallows, than live in slavery.
- Samuel Sharpe
Collection: Slavery
Image of Jordan Peele
There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.
- Jordan Peele
Collection: Slavery
Image of Allen C. Guelzo
One thing which Stephen A. Douglas was temperamentally incapable of doing was admitting he was wrong. He always believed that 'popular sovereignty' - the core doctrine of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill - was the right solution to the slavery controversy; and even though it had failed to solve much of anything in Kansas and Nebraska, he stubbornly insisted that this was because it had never been adequately tested.
- Allen C. Guelzo
Collection: Slavery
Image of Allen C. Guelzo
Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated emancipation plan as early as November, 1861 - but no slaveholders were willing to go along with it.
- Allen C. Guelzo
Collection: Slavery
Image of Helen Bevington
The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.
- Helen Bevington
Collection: Slavery
Image of George Fitzhugh
Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters
- George Fitzhugh
Collection: Slavery
Image of Dave Hockaday
Mental slavery is worst than physical slavery
- Dave Hockaday
Collection: Slavery
Image of David Batstone
Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.
- David Batstone
Collection: Slavery
Image of Catherine Wilson
Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.
- Catherine Wilson
Collection: Slavery
Image of Michel de Montaigne
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
- Michel de Montaigne
Collection: Slavery
Image of Jim Stovall
Showing Respect Is not Slavery...and Must Be Taught
- Jim Stovall
Collection: Slavery
Image of William Shakespeare
Base is the slave that pays.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Slavery
Image of Thomas Paine
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
- Thomas Paine
Collection: Slavery
Image of Timothy Keller
To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.
- Timothy Keller
Collection: Slavery
Image of Seneca the Younger
Life without the courage to die is slavery.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Slavery
Image of Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
Collection: Slavery
Image of Daniel Webster
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
Collection: Slavery
Image of H. G. Wells
The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.
- H. G. Wells
Collection: Slavery
Image of Seneca the Younger
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Slavery
Image of Cornel West
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
- Cornel West
Collection: Slavery
Image of Wole Soyinka
My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
- Wole Soyinka
Collection: Slavery