Quotes About Slavery

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

What is the true story of Fantine? It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defencelessness, destitution. A squalid bargain: a human soul for a hunk of bread. Poverty offers and society accepts.

La popularité ne va jamais sans la défaveur. L'amour des esclaves est toujours doublé de la haine des maîtres.

owing money was the beginning of slavery ..... a creditor was worse than a boss, for a boss only owns your person but a creditor owns your dignity and can slap it around.

What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. From whom? From misery. From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts.

The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution.

S'è detto che la schiavitù è sparita dalla civiltà europea: errore! Esiste sempre, ma pesa soltanto sulla donna e si chiama prostituzione. Pesa sulla donna, ossia sulla grazia, sulla debolezza, sulla beltà, sulla maternità. E questa non è già una delle minori vergogne dell'uomo.

On dit que l'esclavage a disparu de la civilisation européenne. C'est une erreur. Il existe toujours, mais il ne pèse plus que sur la femme, et il s'appelle prostitution.

Che cos'è, in fondo, questa storia di Fantine? È la società che compera una schiava. Da chi? Dalla miseria. Dalla fame, dal freddo, dall'isolamento, dall'abbandono, dallo squallore. Doloroso mercato! Un'anima per un pezzo di pane: la miseria offre, la società accetta.

C'est une atrocité de pharisiens d'exiger des esclaves le désintéressement spirituel qui n'est possible qu'aux affranchis.

The sultan of our kingdom, the governor of our province, and the nobles of our city - they all owned slaves. I ignored the teachings of our Messenger, that all men are brothers, and that there is no difference among them save in the goodness of their actions. With neither care nor deliberation, I consigned these three men to a life of slavery and went to the tavern to celebrate.

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

Months before, Lincoln had been forced to slap down another Union general for jumping the gun on emancipation. In his jurisdiction in Missouri, General John C. Frémont declared martial law and abolished slavery in August 1861.

Congress passed a Confiscation Act in July 1862, which "freed all slaves whose masters were rebels," and a Militia Act, which allowed these "forever free" blacks to be enlisted by the military as paid laborers.

Humor was a form of survival, since it created a necessary psychic distinction from slavery.

Well," said Catherine. "There you are. Everything in England comes down to class. It wouldn't be the same here, I'm sure." Theo leaned back, frowning. "You think not? The slave-holding classes considered enslaved people subhuman. They referred to them as 'the

young as they were, skinny, sometimes shoeless rural boys, most from farms too poor to afford slaves. It had seemed to him an evil fate, a geographical accident, that had forced them to take up arms in what was, to him, a war to secure the rich man's wealth.

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

TRUE, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

After black slavery, the worker, black and white, became the new slave who was left to fend for himself, to feed and educate his children, and to see to his own burial. At the beginning of the Industrial Age the workingman was transformed into another commodity, an item of energy that could be converted to money. Nothing has changed.

se vogliamo entrare nella via del piacere con viltà, disprezzo e schiavitù loro e delle loro nazioni, o in quella della virtù con onore, gloria e felicità" SN, 1411

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

Burton and his ilk also had a distinctive philosophy: they believed that science showed that Europeans and Americans were biologically, mentally, and socially superior to others. "The savage is morally and mentally an unfit instrument for the spread of civilization except when, like the higher mammalia, he is reduced to a state of slavery," wrote August Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers,