Quotes of Slavery - somelinesforyou

“ Man has no right to kill his brother, it is no excuse that he does so in uniform. He only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes. ”

- Alan Keyes

“ Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. ”

- Alexis De Tocqueville

“ A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will. ”

- Henry George

“ The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. ”

- Bob Marley

“ He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Life without the courage for death is slavery. ”

- Seneca

“ There is no slavery but ignorance. ”

- Robert Ingersoll

“ War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength. ”

- George Orwell

“ A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. ”

- Rita Mae Brown

“ Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. ”

- I. F. Stone

“ Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Human trafficking is nothing less than a modern form of slavery. ”

- Condoleezza Rice

“ Lean liberty is better than fat slavery. ”

- John Ray

“ It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. ”

- Maria Weston Chapman

“ Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. ”

- John Ruskin

“ The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall… freedom and slavery are mental states. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Where annual elections end where slavery begins. ”

- John Quincy Adams

“ The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. ”

- Sitting Bull

“ Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. ”

- Edward Abbey
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