Slavery Quotes - Page 27

• The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

  Larry Burkett

  Years, Black, Welfare

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• Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

  Ernest Becker

  Guilt, Kind

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves.

  Huey Newton

  Taken, Men, Gun

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• From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Feelings, Abandonment, States

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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• We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Hereafter

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• Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

  I. F. Stone

  Freedom, Lying, Emancipation

  I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.47, PublicAffairs

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• Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

  Alfred Marshall

  Slave, Ordinances, Olden Times

  Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

  Stephen A. Douglas

  Important, Done, Come Up

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.112, University of Chicago Press

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• Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

  Gerrit Smith

  Theory, Concern

  Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.11

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• I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

  Max Beckmann

  Tears, Loathe

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• I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

  Benjamin F. Wade

  Men, Amazed, Facility

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• Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

  Karl Liebknecht

  Country, War, Long

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• Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Giving, Fortune

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.313, Library of Alexandria

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• There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

  William H. Seward

  Alternatives, States, Free State

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• In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Philadelphia, Quaker, Feels

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.24, Anza Publishing

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• I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

  William H. Seward

  Europe, Mexico, France

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• It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

  Gerrit Smith

  Success, Causes, Influence

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• What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

  Flora Tristan

  Intellectual, England, Flora

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• It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

  Gerrit Smith

  Suits, Sometimes, States

  Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress”, p.22

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• Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.

  William H. Seward

  Christian, Nations, Christian Nation

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• Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

  George Mason

  Art, Discouraging

  "The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787", Volume 2, as recorded by James Madison, 1908.

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• Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

  Tatyana Ali

  Democracies Have, America, Democracy

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• The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  States

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.313, Library of Alexandria

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• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Secret, Literature, Concealed

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.55

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• Death is better than slavery.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.96, Cambridge University Press

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