1,063 Quotes About Slavery
- Author Toni Morrison
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To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.
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- Author The Holy Bible
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Proverbs 22:7 "The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender."Galatians 5:1 "do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
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- Author Abraham Lincoln
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
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- Author Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.
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- Author Larken Rose
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Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.
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- Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free
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- Author Solomon Northup
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...So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man's inalienable right to life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness! Hail! Columbia, happy land, indeed!
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- Author Ayn Rand
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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...
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- Author Criss Jami
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Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.
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