Slavery Quotes - Page 5

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.

Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?