Quotes About Slavery

We have never owned, as a country, the damage done not only to people who were enslaved but to future generations in which they were treated. I think that has damaged the future of many African-American people. Some have risen above it quite nobly, but it has impacted generations, and we have to be able to own that as part of the past.

Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.

The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.

The value of Eric Foner's 'The Fiery Trial' lies in its comprehensive review of mostly familiar material; in its sensible evaluation of the full range of information already available about Abraham Lincoln and slavery; and in the deft thoroughness of its scholarship.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

As Lincoln had predicted would happen under popular sovereignty, civil war now raged on the Kansas prairie—proof indeed that slavery was too volatile ever to be solved as a purely local matter.

Southerners could not throw off the Constitution and at the same time invoke it to protect slavery.

Lincoln had good reason to speak of slavery strictly in terms of preserving the Union: they were the only terms the white public was likely to accept.

The lesson was clear: they should have voted for Clay even if he was a slave owner. That would not have been evil, because a tree was known by the fruit it bore. "If the fruit of electing Mr. Clay would have been to prevent the extension of slavery, could the act of electing have been evil?

Medicine often tastes bad, but until we fix the government policies that breed poverty, we have condemned the poor, black, white, and brown to a life of economic slavery.

He was a democrat in practice as well as theory, was opposed to the slave trade, tried to keep it out of the Territories beyond the Ohio river and was in favor of freeing the slaves in Virginia.

Slavery tarnishes the honor of labor and makes industry a disgrace. Slavery poisons the air, and gives barrenness to the soil. Liberty clears the one, and enriches the other.

The only bombshells that strike my fancy are the ones that will free the proletariat from the shackles of wage slavery.

Kai looked after him, saddened. Why couldn't Aidan understand? Brian has virtually begged for his punishment. The maintenance of a household demanded order— his father had said so a thousand times. Such a savage thing would never happen to Aidan, who was obedient and polite. Never. Why couldn't he see that? Why couldn't he play? It was disturbing, and confusing, and just a bit irritating to be so dependent on the availability of a slave.

I finally got to watch 'Roots' in my mid-teens, on a video rental. Slowly and meticulously Roots fed its black characters through the mincing machine of American slavery. People with names, hopes and family connections were destroyed and dehumanised before my eyes.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. It became a publishing sensation. Lincoln was later wryly to remark to her: 'So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.' The South reacted with fury to her attack on slavery.

Instead of man being the aim of production, production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production, instead of tools and the productive mechanism in general liberating man from the slavery of toil, man has become the slave of tools and the industry has become synonymous with business and people have been duped into asking, "what's good for business?" instead of, "what is business good for?

Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.

Cómo escapar de esta espantosa esclavitud de noche, tinieblas y terrores?

Howard Thurman, one of America's greatest theologians said, "By some amazing but vastly creative spiritual insight the slave undertook the redemption of a religion that the master had profaned in his midst.

Savant, doesn't it strike you as somewhat…hypocritical that we fight to keep humans free from the domination of machines, while at the same time some of our own League Worlds use slaves?