Slave Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• [Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Weed, Marijuana

  "The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds".

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• Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, Action

  1850 Representative Men,'Goethe'.

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• If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Self Improvement, Slavery

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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 this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Patriotic, Government

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

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• We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Witty

  "Words of Wisdom: Winston Churchil"l, Students' Academy, Lulu Press, Section Three, 2014.

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• So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Heart, Law

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Anniversary, Romantic

  Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 213

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• The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Reality, Uprising, Dynamics

  "The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental". Book by Rebecca Wanzo, 2009.

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• It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

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• The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Insecure, Civilization, Machines

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days

  Edward Hoagland

  Dog, Exercise, Slave Owners

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• So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Selfish, Mistake, Men

  "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854

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• If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

  Richard V. Allen

  Country, Children, Love You

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• It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we're not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.

  Kevin Bales

  Talking, Numbers, People

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• We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Two, Evil

  Third Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 23 September 2003, New York, NY

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• If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

  Abraham Lincoln

  Desire, Firsts, Should

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.343, Fordham Univ Press

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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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• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom

  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

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• Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Civil War, Unity

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

  Emma Lazarus

  Inspirational, Freedom, Tired

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

  John Brown

  Life, God, Dedication

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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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• The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cheer, Children, Book

  "Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers". Book by David W. Bartlett, 1856.

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