Quotes and Sayings About Slavery

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Men #Wish #Slavery

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Believe #Purpose #Slavery

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Presidential #Slavery

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Liberty #Slavery #Prosperity

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
-- Aeschylus

#Yoke #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
-- Ahlam Mosteghanemi

#Dream #Waiting #Slavery

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.
-- Ahmed Sekou Toure

#Liberty #Slavery #Riches

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
-- Al Sharpton

#Long #Racism #Slavery

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
-- Alan Keyes

#Animal #Abuse #Slavery

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
-- Albert Camus

#War #Boredom #Slavery

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
-- Alexander Herzen

#Order #Civilization #Slavery

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#Freedom #Equality #Slavery

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
-- Alfred Marshall

#Slavery #Slave

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
-- Algernon Blackwood

#Slavery #May #Individual

Greed is permanent slavery
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Greed #Insightful #Slavery

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.
-- Alveda King

#Racism #Gone #Slavery

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Machines #World #Slavery

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
-- Andrew Young

#Black #Slavery #Welfare

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

#Art #Slavery #Born

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.
-- Angela Davis

#Slavery #Constitution #Crime

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
-- Angela Davis

#America #Slavery #Death Penalty

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Slavery

A slave is but half a man.
-- Aristophanes

#Men #Half #Slavery

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

#Slavery #Slave #Worst

When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.
-- August Bebel

#Church #Vigor #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.
-- Ayn Rand

#Champion #Majority #Slavery

Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?
-- Barack Obama

#Children #Slavery #Scripture

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Men #Giving #Slavery

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Slavery #States

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
-- Barry Goldwater

#Men #Slavery #Conservative