Top Slavery Quotes

On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no thanks for 400+ years of free labor, forced serv...

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.

Slavery Definition

(n.) The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.

(n.) A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will.

(n.) The holding of slaves.

Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him

If freedom rings, then bondage bombs.

As she gracefully descended down portico, the white gloved hand of the lady of the estate met the white-glove worn by a Negro footman, as a vast expanse of hoop skirt filled the carriage doorway. It w...

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To hi...

An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new w...

I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.

..the guests milled back and forth: men stood with their heads together, discussing politics and crops, their stiff white shirts puffed and ruffled, their voices rising and falling in steadfast opinio...

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right...

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.

It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of our country

In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came to the practicalities of life, a ruthless pragmatism often came...

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 t...

Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.

Earned money brings you security, borrowed money gets you slavery.

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothe...

It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.