1,063 Quotes About Slavery
- Author M. Nourbese Philip
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they ask for water we give them seathey ask for bread we give them seathey ask for life we give them only the sea
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- Author Harriet Beecher Stowe
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One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,—they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm.
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- Author Charles Stross
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...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a gift of parental DNA is to be doomed to slavery.
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- Author Justin K. McFarlane Beau
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Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.
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- Author Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The benevolent gentleman is sorry; but, then, the thing happens every day! One sees girls and mothers crying at these sales, always! it can't be helped, etc.; and he walks off, with his acquisition, in another direction.
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- Author M. Nourbese Philip
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we rescue our tears from the seasecure them by writ
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- Author Bryant McGill
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Most so-called success in the world is slavery.
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- Author Kenneth Patchen
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Out of slavery, freedom --yes, & roses from the pig's behind.
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- Author Allan Dare Pearce
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Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.
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