Slave Quotes - Page 5

Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.

If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

You're a Good Little Slave

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.

My horses are my friends, not my slaves.

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.

Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

I've always been a slave to my heart.

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.