Slave Quotes - Page 7

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it.

We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary. The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it

Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?