86 quotes found
“Ain't we all been hurt by slavery?”
“The day he was to sell the children from their mother he would tell that mother to go to some other place to do some work and in their absence he would sell the children. It was the same when he wo...”
“John's master, in allowing his slaves to marry, was much more liberal than most slave owners, who allowed their slaves no such liberty. As a rule negro men were not allowed to marry at all, any att...”
“Strange as it may seem, within plain sight of this same house, looking down from its commanding height upon it, was the Capitol. The voices of patriotic representatives boasting of freedom and equa...”
“I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed,The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.”
“Slavery provides comfort to the oppressor. Even more than comfort, it provides power over those who witness. Slavery is, after all, a luxury. Slavery is a distraction, so long as the onlooker is no...”
“Slavery is not a horror safely confined to the past; it continues to exist throughout the world, even in developed countries like France and the United States. Across the world slaves work and swea...”
“One could call a master a good master because he did not whip his slaves, but ultimately he was still and owner of men, and men were not made to be owned.”
“Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and consequence to any other incidence of human en...”
“Stardom can be a gilded slavery.”
“To some extent I liken slavery to death.”
“Death is better than slavery.”
“The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.”
“Religion and slavery are incompatible.”
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.”
“Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.”
“All socialism involves slavery.”
“Socialism means slavery.”
“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.”
“But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.”
