Slavery Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It literally destroyed millions, but it didn't destroy the inner lives of all the people who experienced it. There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally. If I had only a negative side of things to present, I think I would have much less of a drive to do it. Because what would be the point?

  John Edgar Wideman

  Book, Thinking, People

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• If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Failure, Government, Evidence

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.99, Book Tree

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• To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

  Virginia Woolf

  Father, Work, Form

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.173

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• What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.

  Andrew Young

  War, America, Railroads

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• Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.

  Thomas Fuller

  Passion, Addiction, Self Discipline

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• I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Guest of Honor Speech at the 29th World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, Washington, 1961.

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• Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the longer the tether of our slavery?

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Mean, Passion, Sacrifice

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, War, Cutting

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• I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

  Harriet Tubman

  Hands, Black History, African American

  "Harriet, The Moses of Her People". Book by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.

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• I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?

  Barbra Streisand

  Children, Women, Feminist

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• The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery

  Patrick Henry

  Country, House, Awful

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

  Carl Sagan

  Reading, Path, Taught

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• It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

  Malcolm X

  Appreciation, Prison, Sweetest

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.386, Ballantine Books

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• While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

  Horace Greeley

  Historical, Liberty, Bankers

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• ... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this we must remember. there are many of our people who hate the poor of the white race, and they hate us. the people in this town living by the river who work in the mills. people who are almost as much in need as we are ourselves. this hatred is a great evil, and no good can ever come from it... the injustice of need must bring us all together and not separate us. we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.

  Carson McCullers

  Hate, Race, Color

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Ambition, Understanding, Soul

  Luigi Pirandello (1987). “The late Mattia Pascal”, Eridanos Library

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• The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Long, People

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• The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Work, Needs, World

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.

  Frederick Douglass

  Sad, Country, Depressing

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.409, Library of America

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• If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Courage, Rocks, African American

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• As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dance, War, Evil

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• When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.

  Gerry Spence

  Acceptance, Self, Kingdoms

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• I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!

  Frederick Douglass

  Eye, Dark, Night

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave”, p.60, Xist Publishing

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• Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.

  Pope Francis

  Inspiring, Wise, Children

  Pope Francis' 'State Of The World' Address To Diplomatic Corps, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2014.

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