Quotes About Slavery

If the Confederacy succeeded in starting a new country, based on slavery, it would destroy the special hope that the world's millions had vested in America.

The French Revolution ends slavery unilaterally. And it does so at this moment when the British, the Spanish, the Portuguese and the Americans - all of the other major powers - keep slavery. And the fact is that it's almost bankrupting the French Colonial Empire.

We need a foreign policy which responds to challenges like forced marriage, and which speaks to the particular needs of women and girls at risk of being sold into slavery.

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.

If the British wished to abolish the slave trade, they simply sent the navy. By 1840 no fewer than 425 slave ships had been intercepted by the Royal Navy off the West African coast and escorted to Sierra Leone, where nearly all of them were condemned.

they felt a genuine distaste for the institution of slavery. But of at least equal importance was a sense that the Confederacy was not a good credit risk (after all, the Confederate president Jefferson Davis had openly advocated the repudiation of state debts when he was a US senator).

Slavery, first and foremost, was an energy institution. Shackling human muscle was about getting work done.

The great evil of American slavery was involuntary servitude or forced labor. I really believe that the true evil of American slavery was the narrative of racial difference that we created to justify it.

The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that's a whole different thing than reading about it in the history books. You're able to really personalize it.

When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

Two people died for every one who made it to the auction block, he said.