(223 quotes found)
“Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it by being a slave himself”
Abraham Lincoln
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
Anais Nin
“Poverty is slavery (Somalia)”
African Proverb
“My principal objections to orthodox religion are two - slavery here and hell hereafter”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body”
Kahlil Gibran
“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”
Plato
“"We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their service, and we must decide whether that element should be with us or "against us". Emancipation, will strike at the heart of the rebellion." Said to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles.”
“The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries”
George Bernard Shaw
“Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict [slavery] might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has”
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