Be A Slave Quotes - Page 2

• I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hate, Example, World

  Speech, Peoria, Ill., 16 Oct. 1854

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• ...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Slavery, Administration

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.16, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities have a dominant voice in running the institutions that affect their lives?

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Voice, Should Have

  Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero (2003). “Chomsky on Democracy & Education”, p.337, Psychology Press

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• And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

  Robert Treat Paine

  Son, Sea, Earth

  Robert Treat Paine (1812). “The Works in Verse and Prose”, p.247

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• A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Fall, Government

  Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

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• Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Strong, Freedom

  Speech to 140th Indiana regiment, 17 Mar. 1865

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• Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

  Kevin Bales

  Children, Might, Slavery

  Kevin Bales (2005). “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Men, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.680, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

  Euripides

  Freedom, Literature, Slavery

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.114, University of Chicago Press

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• Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Motivational, Memorial Day

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• Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Escaping, Desire, Slavery

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.88, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Would Be, World, Slavery

  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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• Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

  Maria Weston Chapman

  Character, People, Done

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• Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.

  Benjamin Carson

  Crazy, Thinking, Obamacare

  "Ben Carson: Obamacare worst thing ‘since slavery’" by Sean Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. October 11, 2013.

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• There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Kings, Diversity

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.

  W. H. Auden

  Thinking, Style, Suffering

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• I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strong, Freedom, Men

  Speech to 140th Indiana regiment, 17 Mar. 1865

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• We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Civilization, Names

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Congress And The President, Giving, Free Spirit

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Nature, Truth

  "What I Believe". The Forum Magazine, Issue 84 (p. 139), September 1930.

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• There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Two, People, World

  Quoted in James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni, A Dialogue (1973)

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• If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Giving, Slavery, Creatures

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.198, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Slavery, Monkeys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.295, Harvard University Press

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• No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

  Euripides

  Freedom, Law, People

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• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Son

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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