Slavery Quotes - page 6

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them. (Idries Shah)
But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before. View quote
Bob Edwards
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person. View quote
Solomon Northup
I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery. View quote
Solomon Northup
Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery. View quote
Frank Chodorov
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out. View quote
Iris Chang
I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it? View quote
Alex Tabarrok
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals. View quote
Alveda King
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic. View quote
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently. View quote
Boris Kodjoe
The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received. (Caleb Cushing)
I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms. View quote
Caleb Cushing
Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do. View quote
Derrick Bell
The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery. View quote
Ezra Cornell
The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level. View quote
Ed Rollins
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. View quote
Gerrit Smith
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it. View quote
Gerrit Smith
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. View quote
Gerrit Smith
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning. View quote
Gerrit Smith
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. (Henry Charles Carey)
When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman. View quote
Jennifer Chiaverini