Slavery Quotes

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

~ Maya Angelou

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

~ Maya Angelou

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

~ Millard Fillmore

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

~ Iris Chang

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

~ I. F. Stone

Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.

~ Richard Rohr

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

~ Marion Barry

All socialism involves slavery.

~ Herbert Spencer

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

~ Jonathan Swift

Socialism means slavery.

~ Lord Acton

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

~ Josiah Stamp

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

~ Robert Charles Winthrop

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

~ Abraham Lincoln

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

~ Al Sharpton

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

~ George Segal

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

~ Lysander Spooner

A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.

~ Ha-Joon Chang

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

~ Julian Bond

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

~ Marcus Garvey

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

~ Wayne Dyer

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

~ Thomas Huxley

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

~ Anaïs Nin