1,063 Quotes About Slavery

If I say you are not free to associate with me, it also means I too am not free to associate with you. I might call you the slave but not less bound by the slavery I have created."- Prince Ikan

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.

The family is one of the greatest traps that society has used for millennia to keep man a slave

I found most of my friends quite content to be used as tax-material, even though the sums of money taken from them were employed against their own beliefs and interests. They had lived so long under the system of using others, and then in their turn being used by them, that they were like hypnotized subjects, and looked on this subjecting and using of each other as a part of the necessary and even Providential order of things. The great machine had taken possession of their souls.

There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust white men.

You actually abolish slavery by accompanying the slave. We don't strategize our way out of slavery, we solidarize, if you will, our way toward its demise. We stand in solidarity with the slave, and by doing so, we diminish slavery's ability to stand.

The city of Paris, France, became a place of refuge for biracial Americans during slavery and at the time of the Harlem Renaissance for black musicians, fine artists, writers and others seeking opportunities to practice their craft free from American racism.

Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized