1,063 Quotes About Slavery

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.