Slavery Quotes - Page 12

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.

Death is better than slavery.

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

He who learns death unlearns slavery.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.

It's modern-day slavery.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

Base is the slave that pays.

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.