Quotes About Slavery

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

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

The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line

The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.

Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

We must escape this monotony, this slavery of our minds, We have not achieved complete freedom yet.