Slave Quotes - Page 17

Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

With the Lincoln assassination, the South didnt feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

How many people worldwide are victims of this type of slavery, in which the person is at the service of his or her work, while work should offer a service to people so they may have dignity. I ask my brothers and sisters in faith and all men and women of good will for a decisive choice to combat trafficking in persons, which includes "slave labor."

No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It only says that you should treat your slaves well. Well, I don't care if you treat them well. How is it possible that it is not immoral to own another person? Why isn't that one of the Ten Commandments? 'Thou shalt not own another person.' You want to sit here and tell me that fornication is worse than owning someone?

Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.

We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

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

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.