Slavery Quotes - Page 18

• Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.

  Thomas Sowell

  Europe, People, Libertarian

  "Random Thoughts". townhall.com. October 16, 2012.

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• A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of the self, an admission of impotence, an offense against generosity and justice. Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.

  Hakim Bey

  Fate, Self, People

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• Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

  George Clymer

  Abolition Of Slavery, Next, Constitution

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• We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.

  Ahmed Sekou Toure

  Liberty, Riches, Poverty

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• Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it

  Thomas Szasz

  Commitment, Problem, Psychological

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• The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every honest citizen an equal right to enjoy his religion and an equal title to all civil emoluments, without obliging him to tell his religion. Every interference of the civil power in regulating opinion, is an impious attempt to take the business of the Deity out of his own hands; and every preference given to any religious denomination, is so far slavery and bigotry.

  Noah Webster

  Religious, Father, Hands

  Noah Webster (1785). “Sketches of American Policy Under the Following Heads: I. Theory of Government, II. Governments on the Eastern Continent, III. American States, Or, the Principles of the American Constitutions Contrasted with Those of European States, IV. Plan of Policy for Improving the Advantages and Perpetuating the Union of the American States”, p.27, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• He who learns death unlearns slavery.

  Cornel West

  Thrive, Unlearn

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• Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

  George Orwell

  World, May, Empires

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Pain, Light, Darkness

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• Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.

  Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale

  Death, Freedom, Understanding

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• The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

  Larry Burkett

  Years, Black, Welfare

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• Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

  Ernest Becker

  Guilt, Kind

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves.

  Huey Newton

  Taken, Men, Gun

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• From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Feelings, Abandonment, States

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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• We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Hereafter

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• Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

  I. F. Stone

  Freedom, Lying, Emancipation

  I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.47, PublicAffairs

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• Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

  Alfred Marshall

  Slave, Ordinances, Olden Times

  Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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 A. Douglas

  Important, Done, Come Up

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.112, University of Chicago Press

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• Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

  Gerrit Smith

  Theory, Concern

  Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.11

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• I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

  Max Beckmann

  Tears, Loathe

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• I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

  Benjamin F. Wade

  Men, Amazed, Facility

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• Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

  Karl Liebknecht

  Country, War, Long

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• Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Giving, Fortune

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.313, Library of Alexandria

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• There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

  William H. Seward

  Alternatives, States, Free State

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

  John Sergeant Wise

  Philadelphia, Quaker, Feels

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.24, Anza Publishing

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