Slave Quotes

"I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories"

Cecil Rhodes, Statesman

"From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss"

George Reisman, Economist

"The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within"

Yehudi Menuhin, Musician

"If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free"

Benjamin F. Wade, Politician

"There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it"

Charles Guggenheim, Director

"Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female"

Susan Griffin, Writer

"Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican"

Marion Berry, Politician

"By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave"

James Connolly, Politician

"I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it"

Omar Sharif, Actor

"Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions"

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

"Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again"

Leif Garrett, Musician

"Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good"

Shannon Elizabeth, Actress

"The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave"

Denis Kearney, Politician

"If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor"

John Woolman, Clergyman

"As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection"

George Haven Putnam, Soldier

"The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere"

Charles Rangel, Politician

"If we are not represented, we are slaves"

James Otis, Lawyer

"Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means"

Anthony Eden, Politician

"I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man"

Fanny Kemble, Actress

"Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious"

Fanny Kemble, Actress

"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave"

Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic

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