Quotes About Slavery

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Free your mind and free yourself from brand slavery.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

Choosing to live a life in a cynical negative matter, doubting every opportunity, and doubting every God-given ability that you possess, is in effect choosing to live a life bound by the chains of mental slavery.

The swollen bellies that followed were not a thing of shame; they were profit: more slaves. These unions were not always rape; sometimes there was mutual satisfaction and even affection. At least that is what the men who spoke of them believed.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.

It should come as no surprise that the defense of racial slavery gave rise to a profoundly reactionary worldview.

majority of the men who held political office and led the movement for a separate southern nation were planters or substantial slaveholders,

The age of democratic revolutions inaugurated by the American revolution made the existence of slavery and servile labor questionable for the first time in western history

In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in any way with slavery or the slave trade; a nation-wide burning of the books.

The only condition of submission is to submit!… One nation, under one Government, without slavery, has been ordained, and shall stand." Some

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

The biggest form of slavery is the slavery to fear

You can change your position, without changing your condition. We are no further from slavery now, than we was after the Emancipation.

Slavery all day, and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!

the elite of our people" had, in his quiet way, escaped slavery. In 1841 Joseph Willson, dentist, of Philadelphia, published Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society. He used the pseudonym

In early 1856 a California rancher named Duff Weaver wrote to Lorenzo to say an American woman was living with Mohave Indians and claimed that Fort Yuma's new commander, Martin Burke, had refused an offer to trade her back for a few blankets. Southern California's first newspaper, the Los Angeles Star, ran the story, reprinting Weaver's letter and fulminating about the commanding officer's refusal to ransom "two American women from worse than negro slavery.

The moral degradation of the slave is, above all things, the weight that opposes the progress of humanity - humanity striving to rise and held back by this great burden. The cry of redemption speaks far more clearly for the souls of men than for their bodies.

Such prizes and punishments are, if I may be allowed the expression, the bench of the soul, the instrument of slavery for the spirit. Here

Such prizes and punishments are, if I may be allowed the expression, the bench of the soul, the instrument of slavery for the spirit.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.