Quotes About Slavery

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.