Quotes of: Slavery Keyword

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

Jesse Jackson

Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.

John Lothrop Motley

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

Roy Ayers

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Noah Webster

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

Stephen Douglas

Mental Slavery remains the biggest form of oppression till this day. New insights or ideas is what shines freedom from such an oppression.

Unarine Ramaru

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

William H. Seward

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.

John Ridley

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Kailash Satyarthi

Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim to be vegetarians, 'nothing' is the far more likely outcome. I ask these activists to weigh the horrors of Blade...

An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River

I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor. But I should be false to the earlierst sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true t...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures

To live [in the church] at the beck and call of marketing logic is to live in slavery.

Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

God Emperor of Dune

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

Activist Faith: From Him and For Him

To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

The Invention of Wings

[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.

The Social Contract

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.

Slavery in Massachusetts