Top Slavery Quotes

In order for slavery to work, in order for us to buy, sell, beat, and trade people like animals, Americans had to completely dehumanize slaves. And whether we directly participated in that or were sim...

The mythology serves purposes darker than sentiment, nothing more so than the currently popular, and arrantly nonsensical, assertion that Lee freed his inherited slaves in 1862 before the war was over...

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.

White ain't nothing.'Mama's grip did not lessen. 'It is something, Cassie. White is something just like black is something. Everybody born on this Earth is something, and nobody, no matter what color...

The biggest form of slavery is the slavery to fear

My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for the wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary, by Divin...

In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Government as we now know it in the USA and other economically advanced countries is so manifestly horrifying, so corrupt, counterproductive, and outright vicious, that one might well wonder how it co...

Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using different words, 'property taxes' are just a Mafia tur...

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may* be, and one *must* be, wrong. God cannot be *for* and *against* the same thing at th...

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

Vampire Willow Rosenberg: "In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.

A third layer of nativeness was composed of those whom others thought directly descended, even the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa centuries ago...

The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no lim...

Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.

Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space....

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

Yet the enslavement of Africans—over 20 percent of the population—served as the linchpin of American democracy; that is, the much-heralded stability and continuity of American democracy was predicated...

Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiri...

She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.