1,063 Quotes About Slavery

By 1860, two of every three of the relatively few Americans whose wealth surpassed $100,000 lived below the Mason-Dixon Line. New York at that time had fewer millionaires per capita than Mississippi. South Carolina was the richest state in the Union. The source of southern wealth was staple crops—particularly cotton—produced by enslaved men, women, and children for world markets. So matchless were the profits that more money was invested in slaves than in industry and railroads.

Nessuno è più schiavo di colui che si ritiene libero senza esserlo

For memory is the chariot, and memory is the way, and memory is the bridge from the curse of slavery to the boon of freedom.

Hatred and love are equally enslaving.

At finding ourselves, and without having committed any crime, thus introduced into one of the legal fortresses of a country celebrated throughout the world for the freedom, equality, and magnanimity of its laws, I could not help reflecting on the strange ideas of right and justice that seemed to have usurped a place in public opinion, since the mere accident of birth, and what persons were the lease capable of changing or modifying was made a reason for punishing and imprisoning them.

No one is freer than someone who couldn’t care less about how he or she feels.

We are greatly enslaved by how we do not want and how we want to feel.

The slave cannot be made to defecate for the master.

I am a human, hence a free spirit!