Quotes on Slavery

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

Author: Mary Astell

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

Author: Mikhail Bakunin

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

Author: Max Beckmann

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Author: Antoinette Blackwell

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.

Author: Caleb Cushing

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

Author: Helen Hayes

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

Author: Samuel Hopkins

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

Author: Harriet Jacobs

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Author: Andrew Johnson

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

Author: Mary Jones

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

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

Author: Bob Marley

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

Author: George Mason

No pope ever condemned slavery.

Author: Joseph McCabe

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

Author: John Ruskin

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Author: Lucius Seneca

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

Author: Gerrit Smith

All socialism involves slavery.

Author: Herbert Spencer