John Stuart Mill Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

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

  John Stuart Mill

  Wife, Slave, Length

  The Subjection of Women ch. 2 (1869)

• The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.

  John Stuart Mill

  Children, Animal, Favour

  John Stuart Mill, Stephen Nathanson (1875). “Principles of Political Economy (Abridged): With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.291, Hackett Publishing

• Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

  John Stuart Mill

  Marriage, Law, House

  The Subjection of Women ch. 4 (1869)

• In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultivation, before any thinker was bold enough to question the rightfulness, and the absolute social necessity, either of the one slavery or of the other.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sex, Age, Slavery

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “The Subjection of Women: Mill's Works”, p.5, VM eBooks

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