Slavery Quotes - Page 15

The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's right to vote, and so on I would argue that if what is at stake is securing life as we know it, then there can be no bigger struggle that we face.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body

Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery; and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom.

Slavery is more mental than anything

In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how to treat their slaves. "Slaves, obey your masters. Masters, be kind to yourslaves." Paul was in favor of a kinder and gentler slavery; it never occurred to him to raise the question about whether slavery itself was immoral.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.

For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.

If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.

Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.

First then, it is apparent, horribly apparent, that the slavery question rides insolently over every other everywhere - in fact that is the only question which in the least affects the results of the elections.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

I hope that young people especially will begin to have a better understanding of slavery and its effects, which are still evident today, to understand those parallels and, from there, begin ta be a part of the wave of hope to change things for the better.

Slavery doesn't have any positives.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.