Slavery is a term that refers to the injustices being committed against humans since the 1600s. People usually picture rich white people ruling over black people whenever this word comes up. However, this is not the only case. After a thorough study, historians found evidence that suggested the presence of slavery is in almost every culture. It was not essentially in people working in the fields but in other forms. Slavery usually occurs because of the division of levels among humans in society. It is still present in different parts of the world. It doesn’t necessarily have to be hard-core. However, it does happen. In short, slavery never did any good to any human being, neither the majority nor the minority. Times are changing, and so is the mindset of the people. There is a need to be socially aware of these evils hidden in different forms in our society. We must unite to stop this. Every citizen must make the world safe for every human being to live. Here we have come up with a collection of Slavery Quotes that will make you fight for freedom.
Slavery Quotes
- Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.-ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- Slavery is theft — theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.-KEVIN BALES
- Nature made no man a slave.-ALCIDAMAS
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.-ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.-ELBERT HUBBARD
- Not only does the Christian religion, but nature herself, cry out against the state of slavery.-POPE LEO X
- Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.-FREDERICK DOUGLASS
- When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.-GERRY L. SPENCE
- Hatred, slavery’s inevitable aftermath.-JOSÉ MARTÍ
- Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature — opposition to it, in his love of justice.-ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.-VICTOR HUGO
- Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.-LYMAN ABBOTT
- We have seen the mere distinction of colour made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.-JAMES MADISON
- That execrable sum of all villainies … the slave-trade.-JOHN WESLEY
- Who enslaves another’s manhood with weak human power alone,
- Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own-MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
- This abomination must have an end. And there is a superior bench reserved in Heaven for those who hasten it.-THOMAS JEFFERSON
- Slavery is the bane of man and the abomination of heaven.-N. P. TALLMADGE
- No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.-JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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- Though a man be a slave, he is the same flesh as thyself; for no one has ever been born a slave by nature; but fortune subjected his body to servitude.-PHILEMON
- Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.-MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN
- There is an alacrity in a consciousness of freedom, and a gloomy, sullen insolence in a consciousness of slavery.-OWEN FELTHAM
- Slavery brutalizes man; it makes a brute not merely of the slave, but of the slave-holder.-C. L. REMOND
- Slavery, in all its forms, in all its degrees, is a violation of Divine law, and a degradation of human nature.JACQUES-PIERRE BRISSOT DE WARVILLE
- People don’t buy products–they buy people. It’s called slavery. I mean networking. It’s called networking.-JAROD KINTZ
- Slavery impairs our strength as a community, and poisons our morals at the fountain head.-WILLIAM GASTON
- Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.-ANNA QUINDLEN
- It is a dire calamity to have a slave; it is an expiable curse to be one.-WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
- Slavery, however easy may be its chains, cannot be altogether divested of its bitterness, and can only be regarded as the prism of the soul, and a public dungeon.-LONGINUS
- Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.-AESCHYLUS
- So be sure that you are making the best of what you have
- The truth is all within yourself Don’t be a slave, a slave to someone else.-MOTLEY CRUE
- Whenever a slave shall enter Hawaiian territory, he shall be free.-KAMEHAMEHA V
- In ancient times, as to-day in Asia and Africa, slaves were simply called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of “serfs”, to-day they are called “wage-earners”.-MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
- It is the mind of man alone that is the cause of his bondage or freedom.-CHANAKYA
- The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.-MARY CLEMMER AMES
- It was considered as being bad enough to be a slave; but to be a poor man’s slave was deemed a disgrace indeed!-FREDERICK DOUGLASS
- But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.-LAUREN DESTEFANO
- If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable — and this is why we are the enemies of the State.-MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
- Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.-CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.-GEORGE ORWELL
- He that is brought up a slave, will be a tyrant when he has the power.-FREDERICK MARRYATT
- My allegation It’s alright Slave nation Alright Want to tell ya All is gone You’re a slave nation Right or wrong-SIMPLE MINDS
- I envy neither the heart nor the head of that man who rises here to defend slavery from principle.-JOHN RANDOLPH
- What are blessings in freedom are curses in slavery.-AESOP
- No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.-THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
- Slavery is an Hydra sin, and includes in it every violation of the precepts of the Law and the -Gospel.-BENJAMIN RUSH
- It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.-PATRICK HENRY
- If we would trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes and all princes from slaves: But fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy, in a long story of revolutions.-WELLINS CALCOTT
- I hate slavery, though the chains be of gold.-ELEONORA FONSECA PIMENTEL
- Slavery is not an institution worthy of pride. What is worthy of pride was that we, as a nation, united, eventually stood for human dignity and liberty for all.-SUSAN APPLEGATE
- “America has always been the home of the brave, but it has never been the land of the free.”― A.K. Kuykendall
“Responsibility without authority is slavery.”― Sijin Bt
- “When controlled by another person, your life is at slavery. When controlled by yourself, your life is at freedom”― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
- “If your mouth is damaged, you cannot buy another mouth to consume your food”― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
- “If you keep your head down to your success, you are humble and if you keep your head down to someone’s success, you are a slave”― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
- “Do not become a slave to the opinions of others.”― Ibn Jeem
- “If the ideas of reincarnation were true, I would love to see the slave incarnated as the king.”― Mwanandeke Kindembo
“Simplicity protects people from Carnal Slavery!”― Bruce Mbanzabugabo
- “Deep inside every slave there is a repressed, dormant master”― Bangambiki Habyarimana
- “There’s a thin line between being Employed and Slavery.”― PK Kasirim
- “No man should become a master of another. You must resist falling into this category.”― Mwanandeke Kindembo
- “So many great women and men were stripped of their worth, talent, and contribution for the betterment of humanity.”― Bert McCoy
- “The society that does not respect the sacrifices of their soldiers, remain slave of the corrupt political systems.”― Dr. Ashok Anand
