Slavery Quotes - Page 13

• From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.

  Charles Edward Merriam

  Race, Two, Perfect

  6 Copy quote

• In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

  Joel Barlow

  Education, People, Theatre

  Joel Barlow (1796). “The Political Writings of Joel Barlow ... A New Edition Corrected”, p.192

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more infamous practice than slavery in the ancient world - was initiated, carried on and defended by Christian men in Christian countries.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Christian, Country, Men

  21 Copy quote

• It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts, but perennially one's own, to be used! Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Believe

  103 Copy quote

• The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Ignorance, People, Firsts

  55 Copy quote

• Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Loyalty

  4 Copy quote

• Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

  Rajneesh

  Flames, Mind, Awareness

  58 Copy quote

• In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Ignorance, Reality, Thinking

  5 Copy quote

• Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Boredom, Office, Long

  Tom Hodgkinson (2011). “Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself”, p.16, Penguin UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
  WAR IS PEACE
  FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
  IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Ignorance

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been anxious to stop the further effusion of blood, and he trusted that everything would now be done to restore harmony and conciliate the people of the South. He said the emancipation of the Negroes would be no hindrance to the restoring of relations between the two sections of the country, as it would probably not be the desire of the majority of the Southern people to restore slavery then, even if the question were left open to them.

  Horace Porter

  Country, War, Blood

  4 Copy quote

• Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Government, Common Sense

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.

  Craig Kielburger

  Children, Giving Up, Rights

  251 Copy quote

• The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight.

  Roger Moore

  Children, Eight, Sight

  20 Copy quote

• The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Men, Rights

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.724, e-artnow

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

  Gerry Spence

  Government, Goal, Advancement

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.108, Macmillan

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Independence, Bidding

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.300, Vintage

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Mother, Hypocrisy

  "An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport". Book by John Quincy Adams (p.50), 1837.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation

  Angelina Grimke

  Christian, Flames, Faithful

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.155, Penguin

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Smoking, Conspiracy, Scoundrels

  16 Copy quote

• Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but is irresistable when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Giving Up, Fear, War

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.

  Sylvia Fraser

  Children, Father, Reality

  8 Copy quote

• The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Jobs, Acceptance

  16 Copy quote

• A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

  George Washington Carver

  Caring, Science, Self

  15 Copy quote