1,063 Quotes About Slavery

Especially appealing to the planter elite was the conservatism of the American Revolution. Indeed, according to their reading, it had been so conservative that it hardly deserved the title of revolution at all. The goal had been simple political independence, and the issue of home rule had not expanded to include the dangerous question of who should rule at home. The men who made the revolution had maintained control in victory.

The only prison we can be is prison of our mind.

Slavery and indecisiveness are characteristics of most Christians of the world

The biggest form of slavery is the slavery to fear

من السهل عليك أن توقف طاغية عند حده،ولكن من الصعب - كل الصعب - أن تقتلع أثر العبودية من أنفس عبيده بعد تحررهم !

Somewhat paradoxically, the more that Africans and their descendants assimilated cultural materials from colonial society, the less human they became in the minds of the colonists.

Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after the American Revolution that he could make 257 dollars on every (black slave) in a year, and spend only 12 or 13 dollars on his keep.

see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment.

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.