Quotes About Slavery

A man should neither brag about a long tenure spent as an employee at any position of an organization nor boost of a happy, long-married life with a woman as both are nothing but manifestation of slavery.

Bravery is to remain standing upright on his own toe before the wife and Slavery is to keep going down on own knees to bow before her in his life.

Bravery reward is to be bestowed to a person who stands strong as single; Slavery award is to be given to a man who goes down on the toes of a woman to remain long as a married couple.

He who works like a mule for his spouse does the job like a fool in the company or the business house. That's the rule number 1 of the slavery

He works like a mule for his spouse does the job like a fool in the company or the business house. That's the rule number 1 of the slavery.

Job promotion of an employed person is basically a recognition and ratification of his/her slavery or sycophancy nature in the private sector organization.

Salary and Slavery rhyme with each other and the prime thing often witnessed in the private sector company; the bluffers, credit snatchers and duffers enjoy their life a lot whereas an intelligent and diligent suffers the harassment or humiliation the most.

Salary sounds like Slavery only no matter how big it is offered.

The first rule to fuel and flourish the slavery at the workplace is to put the fool at the senior most post to make him enjoy life full and place the talents from school at his subordinates position and let him harass and humiliate them by making them work as asses and mules.

The reward of slavery has been made to look perhaps more aesthetically pleasing than the award of bravery and that's so the reason why many people are attracted towards the former than the latter.

The tendency to do slavery is rewarded through increments and promotion in an organisation and not competency.

There is no bravery but slavery only to have many girlfriends.

Montaigne: "To practice death is to practice freedom.71 A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave." Being a slave to our job and our status in the world makes it much harder to put our day behind us and surrender to sleep.

Were part of the human race to be arrayed in that splendor of beauty which beams from the statues of gods, universal consent would acknowledge the rest of mankind naturally formed to be their slaves.

The story in Lincoln dramatizes the President's efforts to install a 13th Amendment to the Constitution that abolishes slavery. His struggle is more than politically correct; it is presumed inarguably correct which takes the movie outside of history; outside of dramatic immediacy. Watching Lincoln is very much like observing a flesh-and-blood diorama. Everything is soon to be settled (within 2½ hours); there's no emotional suspense.

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?

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.

I had deep satisfaction in the thought, that the reality of shareholders was not concealed from the eyes of the world, and that I was not alone in aborting the cruelty and brutality of slavery.

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory of God and the good of souls. The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave trade go hand in hand.

A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar,—and to hate slavery for other reasons than because it starves men and whips women,—before he is ready to lay the first stone of his anti-slavery life.

Slavery blunts the edge of all our rebukes of tyranny abroad - the criticisms that we make upon other nations, only call forth ridicule, contempt, and scorn. In a word, we are made a reproach and a by-word to a mocking earth, and we must continue to be so made, so long as slavery continues to pollute our soil.

I have found that, to make a contented slave," writes Douglass "it is necessary to make a thoughtless one…He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.