Slavery Quotes - Page 21

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

Death is a slave's freedom.

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

One of the hugest ways that will make an impact, which is only in its infancy right now, is corporate accountability. Consumers at the buying point saying, 'Can you certify to me that this product is slavery-free?' And most cannot right now.

Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.

How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned?

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her behalf, and agitations for her advancement and developmentthan for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?

When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.

If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.