1,063 Quotes About Slavery

Meditation on the holy Scriptures , free us from mental slavery.

What some people regard as freedom is slavery wearing makeup … a push-up bra … and a corset.

Some people are lucky to do what they love for a living, but are unlucky not to be allowed to do it how they want to do it.

Slavery often masquerades as freedom.

May we all stand tall together in the face of those forces, here and elsewhere, that seek to enslave us.

The vast majority of people cannot possess something they value without being possessed by it.

The most important area of domination [is] the mental universe of the colonised, the control, through culture, of how people perceive themselves and their relationship to the world.

While I was a servant to Mr. Webster, he often sent me to her with a market-basket full of provisions, and told me whenever I saw anything in the house that I thought she was in need of, to take it to her. I often did this, and occasionally gave her small sums from my own pocket, though I had years before bought my freedom of her.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.