1,063 Quotes About Slavery

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.

Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother.

Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good.

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

Everything is acceptable until we stop accepting them.

Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery; and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.