Slavery Quotes - Page 25

• Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Iron, Gold, Way

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.453, Manonmani Publishers

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• We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Ideas, Heaven

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2581, Manonmani Publishers

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• I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

  Victor Gollancz

  Animal, Equality, Thinking

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• So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Engaging

  Statement to John Leyburn on May 01, 1870. "R. E. Lee: A Biography" by Douglas Southall Freeman, 1934.

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• The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.

  John Quincy Adams

  Fall, Issues, Liberty

  John Quincy Adams (2017). “John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848”, p.541, Library of America

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• As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

  Alice Walker

  Men, Thinking, Color

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• Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

  Frederick Douglass

  Prayer, Tone, Deliverance

  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass ch. 2 (1845)

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• The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Lying, Hands, Issues

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.20, IHS Press

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• I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago.

  Howard Dean

  Believe, America, Years

  "Dean: Country needs serious discussion about race". www.cnn.com. November 6, 2003.

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• To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Men, Small Numbers, Hands

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• Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.

  Somaly Mam

  Forgiveness, Love Is, Compassion

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• Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.

  Elbert Guillory

  Party, Men, Simple

  "‘Free at Last’: La. State Senator Explains Why He Recently Left the ‘Government Plantation’ & Joined GOP in Powerful Video". www.theblaze.com. June 18, 2013.

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• You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Believe, Past, Thinking

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• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  Iris Chang

  Book, Comfort, Stories

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• With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous angel, which has always done its work for those on earth, will roll away the stone from the tomb where is buried a race, and my people will come forth to their glory and the amazement of the world.

  William Tecumseh Vernon

  Freedom, Angel, Race

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• Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

  Germaine Greer

  World, Abandonment, Individual

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space

  Andrew Johnson

  Father, Government, Space

  Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, February 26, 1863.

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• Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.

  Ned Sublette

  Long, Southern, Negative

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• Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Liberty, Too Much

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• The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Men, Catholic

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• Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Dark, Evil

  1953 Inaugural address, 20 Jan.

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• Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.

  August Bebel

  Civilization, People, Enemy

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• To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

  Timothy Keller

  Process, Instant, Persons

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• The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose of Sabbath is to enjoy your God, life in general, what you have accomplished in the world through his help, and the freedom you have in the gospel-the freedom from slavery to any material object or human expectation. The Sabbath is a sign of the hope that we have in the world to come.

  Timothy Keller

  Order, Expectations, Purpose

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• For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement.

  Walter E. Williams

  Betrayal, Struggle, Rights

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