Slavery Quotes - Page 24

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

  Dillon Burroughs

  America, What If, Church

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• Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.

  Saint Patrick

  Heaven, Promise, Betrayed

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• Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [...] You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Adventure, Fighting

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.

  Gary Haugen

  Modern, Happens, Things Happen

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• As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

  Al Sharpton

  Long, Racism, May

  "Racism & Bias — Can We Pause and Be Honest with Ourselves?" by Al Sharpton, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2014.

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• The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Eye, Men, Religion

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, - the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book.

  James Otis

  Book, Opportunity, Hands

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.

  Sherley Anne Williams

  Heritage, Continuing, Complexes

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• It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.

  Henri de Lubac

  Silence, Tears, Telling The Truth

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• The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

  Charles Rangel

  African American, Challenges, Today

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• My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

  Joseph Addison

  War, Two, Voice

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.187

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• If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

  Solon

  Government, Vices, Blame

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• Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Progress, Kind

  "Social Statics: Great Essays".

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• This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Business, People, Growing

  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.106, Anza Publishing

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• I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Peace, Judging, Mind

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• Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

  Andre Gide

  Men, Numbers, Independence

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• One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Fighting, Action, Last Words

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• Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.

  Henry Cloud

  Love, Perception, Age

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2002). “Boundaries in Marriage”, p.24, Zondervan

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• It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.

  Mary Virginia Terhune

  Dark, Volcanoes, Would Be

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• The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Freedom, People, Choices

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• Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to become slaves? Will you give up your freedom, your life and your property without a single struggle? No man has a right to rule over his fellow creatures.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Giving Up, Freedom, Struggle

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• Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

  Daniel De Leon

  Men, Civilization, Tyrants

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• True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Crush, Equality, Men

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• A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press

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• Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much so that we long to perpetuate it, and go on with "body" "body" for ever. Do not cling to the idea of "body", do not look for a future existence in any way like this one; do not love or want the body, even of those dear to us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Long, Hug

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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