Slavery Freedom Quotes:

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Declaration of Independence (1776).

topic: Life, Change, Happiness, Social Equality, Inaugural Speech

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Gun, Peaceful, Slavery, Pro Gun, 2 Amendment

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

- Frederick Douglass

topic: 4th Of July, Patriotic, Men, Abolition Of Slavery, Slavery Freedom

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.

- Kevin Bales

source: Kevin Bales (2005). “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader”, p.5, Univ of California Press

topic: Children, Slavery, Might, Slavery Freedom, Be A Slave

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.198, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Giving, Slavery, Be A Slave, Slavery Freedom

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

- Ernestine Rose

topic: Together, Slavery, Slavery Freedom

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Fall, Slavery, Moments, Fetters, Mental Slavery

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

- Frederick Douglass

topic: Wisdom, Freedom, Men, Abolition Of Slavery, Slavery Freedom

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Wisdom, Freedom, Powerful, Belive, Limited Government

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

- Bob Marley

source: "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

topic: Inspirational, Music, Song, Love Freedom, Independent Thinking

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.515

topic: Abolition, Abolition Of Slavery, Slavery Freedom

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

- George Orwell

source: Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19

topic: Dream, Time, Peace, Dystopia, Power And Control

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Life, Strong, Freedom, States Rights, Abolition

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Giving, Free Spirit, Civil War, Secession, Proclamation

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Slavery, Slave, Slavery Freedom

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

- Aesop

source: Barbara McClintock, Aesop (2012). “Animal Fables from Aesop”, p.48, David R. Godine Publisher

topic: 4th Of July, Slave, Fats, Funny 4th Of July, Slavery Freedom

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

- George Orwell

source: Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

topic: Freedom, War, Ignorance, Dystopia, Dystopian

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Inspiring, Women, Equality, Social Equality, Social Groups

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2995, Delphi Classics

topic: Thinking, Community, Slavery, Slavery Freedom

Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.325, Bantam Classics

topic: Book, College, Thinking, Slavery Freedom

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter III, Part I, 1835.

topic: Freedom, Equality, America, Liberty And Equality, Democracy In America

Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

- William Cowper

topic: Country, Fall, Air, Slavery Freedom

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

- Paul Robeson

topic: Freedom, Fighting, Artist, Fighting For Freedom, Mental Slavery

He who controls the past controls the future.

- Laozi

topic: Future, Past, Political Language, Power And Control, Looking To The Future

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.349, Bantam Classics

topic: Kings, Women, Slavery, Slavery Freedom