Slave Quotes - Page 8

Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he becomes unfit for slavery, the master will no longer desire to hold him as a slave.

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.

Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.

We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.

Life without the courage to die is slavery.

If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?

I'm not a person that really deal in color. I recognize the inequities that certain cultures have to go through. I understand the history of slavery and all those things. But I'm not a victim. I can vote, I can participant. I can invest my money. I can invest my time. And that's what I'm doing. I'm not working for anybody. I'm not making any money doing what I'm doing. I'm doing it because someone did it for me.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended too.

Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.

When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."

You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.

And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan.

It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).