Slavery Quotes - Page 19

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

The anti-slavery parties were also called spoilers, including the Republican party that went on not just to abolish slavery but they actually take over the Presidency moving very quickly from third-party into the Presidency.

The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede?

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick up a book.

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

A slave is but half a man.

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in the positive ways - if there was no slavery and the abolition of slavery, there would be no jazz.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.

He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.

I don't want to give too much lugubrious thought to the gravitas of a coherent album. I don't want to develop a life of slavery to a large topic. I want to throw out some singles and that's what I'm doing, and they're not to be done in any other way.

Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.

A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.

Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?