1,063 Quotes About Slavery

The mindset that it is the black people that need to work emerged from the days of slavery and colonization

If freedom rings, then bondage bombs.

An unarmed man is either a slave or on his way to becoming one. Only villains and black kings disarm their countrymen.

At least, if I must be owned, I am owned by someone who understands she has no right to my service.

If we tell you even a fraction of our stories, will you still be able to look at us? Or will you only see the scars?

You could get slaves to do anything at all, bear anything, if you gave them any hope that they could keep their children.

We have allowed religion and culture to trample on us and leave us with little or no self-esteem.

The tree of our family was parted - branches here, roots there - parted for their lumber.

Foolish man, what do you bemoan, and what do you fear? Wherever you look there is an end of evils. You see that yawning precipice? It leads to liberty. You see that flood, that river, that well? Liberty houses within them. You see that stunted, parched, and sorry tree? From each branch liberty hangs. Your neck, your throat, your heart are all so many ways of escape from slavery [...] Do you enquire the road to freedom? You shall find it in every vein of your body.