Slavery Quotes - Page 26

• To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Voting, Politics

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• All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Relentless, Marxism

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.

  Kami Garcia

  Writing, Punishment, Paper

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• I hear the mournful wail of millions!

  Frederick Douglass

  Millions

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice... Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other.

  William C. Bryant

  Determination, Dirty, Hard Work

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• The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

  Aristotle

  Slave, Worst, Worst Things

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• How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history?

  Perry Marshall

  Subjugation

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• The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Broken, Chains

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

  Jesse Jackson

  Vote, Lost, States

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson likens gay marriage push to fight over slavery" by Rene Lynch, articles.latimes.com. May 10, 2012.

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• 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

  Proud, Colonialism, Apologetic

  "Jesse Jackson: UK should apologise for slavery". www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2001.

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• Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Pain, Children, Rights

  "Trayvon Martin Case Reminds Us: Never Be Silent" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

  John Ruskin

  Cutting, Soul, Doe

  John Ruskin (1866). “The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War”, p.194

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• Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country ... [It] is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Commitment, Rights

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• Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Numbers, Greater

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• My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Two, Religion, Hell

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2437, Library of Alexandria

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• Thy treasures of gold
  Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold;
  Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear
  The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.

  Lydia M. Child

  Home, Heart, Blood

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• My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Hero, College, May

  George Edward Woodberry (1912). “Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American”

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• Death is a slave's freedom.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Slave

  Nikki Giovanni (1993). “Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People”, p.28, Chicago Review Press

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• Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

  James Russell Lowell

  Father, Men, Brave

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.52

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• Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

  George Orwell

  Reality, Progress, Literature

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.250, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

  Simon Bolivar

  Darkness, Offspring

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• Man alone can enslave man.

  Simone Weil

  Men

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.90, Routledge

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• Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

  Robertson Davies

  Childhood, May, Affection

  Robertson Davies (1999). “Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre”, Penguin Group USA

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• My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Race, Blood

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• To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

  Andre Breton

  Betrayal, Mean, Justice

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