1,063 Quotes About Slavery

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Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us.

Never let anyone put you in chains.

I cannot say, with truth, that the news of my old master's death softened my feelings towards him. There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury. The man was odious to me while he lived, and his memory is odious now.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?

Nothing is more sacred than individual freedom and that's why slavery is the greatest evil.

If freedom is the greatest good, and I believe it is, then slavery must be the greatest evil.

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.