1,063 Quotes About Slavery

Slavery never ended in America, it was only extended to people of all races.

Winning is the simplest way to freedom.

Il travaille pour se libérer de la nécessité de travailler, il se rend esclave pour se libérer de la servitude, et ce tragique paradoxe sera dorénavant la formule de sa vie : écrire pour être dispensé d’écrire ; amasser beaucoup d’argent pour ne plus être contraint de songer à l’argent ; épargner pour pouvoir dépenser ; se retrancher du monde pour avoir les moyens de le conquérir ; bûcher, bûcher, bûcher jour et nuit, sans trêve, sans joie, sans vie, pour vivre enfin la vie réelle…

No knowledge about self is self-slavery!

You are sincerely doing slavery so that you can buy freedom one day. Slavery can't buy you freedom. Be free right now in any small way possible. Only freedom can lead you towards absolute freedom.

Be careful that the decisions that you ‘make’ are not forging the chains that you cannot ‘unmake’ because those are the chains that will eventually ‘unmake’ you.

I was doing harm to no one; on the contrary, I was doing all the good I could in my small way; yet I could never go out to breathe God's free air without trepidation at my heart. This seemed hard; and I could not think it was a right state of things in any civilized country.

I dreaded the approach of summer, when snakes and slaveholders make their appearance. I was, in fact, a slave in New York, as subject to slave laws as I had been in a Slave State. Strange incongruity in a state called free!

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other. What a comfort it is, to be free to say so!