Slavery Quotes (546 Quotes)

If the Lord were to set me upon a throne, I would still be His slave. If I were a grass-cutter, I would still chant the Lord's Name. Servant Nanak is the slave of the Lord contemplate the Glorious Greatness of the Lord

The way that trafficking is stopped is just ordinary people become aware of it and they see something awry and then call in a tip, ... And until people can fathom that their next-door neighbor might have a slave in their house, they're not going to see th

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

All socialism involves slavery.

You must make the mind the servant of God, not the slave of the senses.

If the slavery in which we hold the blacks is wrong, it is a very great and public sin, and, therefore, a sin which God is now testifying against in the calamities he has brought upon us consequently, must be reformed before we can reasonably expect deliverance, or even sincerely to ask for it.

According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

For generations, many people have known that Jefferson fathered children by Sally Hemings, ... The much publicized results of DNA tests several years ago simply corroborate what had been common knowledge. Over the years, certain highly regarded scholars defended Jefferson's 'purity,' categorically denying claims that there had been a sexual relationship between master and slave. Since those 'revelations,' some of them have retreated from their former position of 'It didn't happen' only to insist that the affair between Hemings and Jefferson was an exception. But in fact such affairs, far from being exceptional, were fairly commonplace. That's part of what I wanted to convey by 'the American way' of the title.

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Only when the man of the Sacred Self will look astounded at how awful his Destiny and that of the mankind would have been if it were not for the vanity, he will find out that nothing can be truly known, that the only true knowledge is finding out that everything is non-knowledge. The inexistence of the vanity would have been probably the worst crime of the divinity, because vanity is the mans priciest asset, because it is his meaning, his true pathWhat would have happened if this path had lead to anything else and not to vanity What would have happened if this path, this meaning of man, would have knocked on a certain door of destiny, on whose address was no longer written Vanity Man would have not been free anymore he would have been the slave of his own eternal meaning. The man would have been dominated by the divinity of the meaning because every meaning of man finally leads to its divinity. In any case, the man was sentenced to be a salve forever.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave He dreads a deathbed like the meanest slave.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve

New Jersey was the last (northern) state to abolish slavery, and even if we are the last state to abolish abortion, it will happen eventually.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

This is the first time the opera has ever been performed in a state where slavery was legal.

to expose the plight of black slaves in Sudan and Mauritania, where today tens of thousands of black people still suffer the scourge of slavery.

Light of God Almighty is a path of truth and a damnation of slavery to mankind, due to mankind's dependency on it.

Our trip to Washington reminded us that there is an idea of justice that we believe is worth fighting for. As we helped the survivors of America's bloodiest civil disturbance since the abolition of slavery up the steps of the high court, we realized that their struggle for a just society has become our struggle for a just society.

I didn't retire. I became a slave to a house.

That means this is all part of a reparations mentality, that we owe something special to African Americans because of slavery, segregation, whatever. I understand that mentality, but I don't accept it.

It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God easy to entangle the soul in a network of petty observances, difficult to yield the obedience of an enlightened heart easy to be haughtily exclusive, difficult to be humbly spiritual easy to be an ascetic or a formalist, difficult to be pure, and loving, and wise, and free easy to be a Pharisee, difficult to be a disciple very easy to embrace a self-satisfying and sanctimonious system of rabbinical observances, very difficult to love God with all the heart, and all the might, and all the soul, and all the strength.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died the dark night of slavery closed upon me and behold a man transformed into a brute

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

It's a slave camp. You have no rights. The food is horrible. We were not allowed to go in public places. We walked three kilometers on Sunday in restricted areas. That's the way we lived until the end of war.

This is a deeply uncanny and very troubling development, it exists, and it wants to take us back. It wants to take us, I mean, way back. I mean sure, they want to go back before the 70s and the 60s to the 50s, no doubt about that. They also want to go back before the New Deal to the 20s, well they also want to go back before the Progressive Era to the Gilded Age. Well, not quite, they also want to go back before the Emancipation Proclamation to the days of slavery, not even, what they want to do is take us back to a moment prior to the Enlightenment they want to take us back to a moment when faith registered more than reason. They want to take us back to an imaginary age of absolute moral clarity, when good was good and evil was evil and everyone could see the difference. They want to take us back to an imaginary Manichean age when youre either with us or against us, which means you either are us or well exterminate you because we can only tolerate ourselves, we can only tolerate those who share our values. If this movement were to be given a name, I think it would most appropriate to call it Christo-Fascism, and if anyone objects to my using the word fascism, because it seems so redolent of the Axis powers, and after all we valiantly defeated fascism once, well understand this about fascism, when it arrives it never shows up in the discarded costume of some other country, and when fascism comes here, its not going to be wearing a toothbrush mustache with a luger in his belt and go goose-stepping around the mall, because thats Germany. And its precisely characteristic of fascism, that it seems absolutely, totally expressive of the homeland, it seems completely familiar, its when 150 America puts a flag on its lapel and a cross around its neck and a real folksy way a talkin, but just because its red, white and blue, doesnt mean its American.

Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.

Let us remember that slavery was always the law until some brave citizens stood up and said, 'This is not right.'

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

white Americans are in denial of black Americans' contributions through slavery, through Jim Crow (segregation laws) ... and I believe we can change that through a major new investment in education.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called a Slave Trade.

Don't shed any tears. You think about this Here I am, the grandson of a slave. And here the whole world was excited about whether I was going into the Hall of Fame or not. We've come a long ways.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

I denounce the policy of protection as bondage - yea, bondage and I refer to bondage in the same manner in which American slavery was bondage.

To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs -- a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?