1,063 Quotes About Slavery

What some people regard as an expression of freedom is actually that of slavery.

It's painful fighting for freedom. Freedom has demands. To begin, we must admit we're slaves.

A man who never realizes the power of critical thinking will keep painting slave chains which enslaved him.

... laws of changeless justice bindOppressor with oppressed;And, close as sin and suffering joined,We march to Fate abreast.

All too often, a wise or free person is ridiculed, because of ignorance, by fools or slaves.

Some possessions own a person.

A job often makes it impossible for an employee to enjoy something it makes possible for them to do or have.

We are enslaved, not by the promise we have made, but by the desire to keep it.

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.