Slavery Quotes

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Bob Marley

Free, Minds, Ourselves

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln

Strong, Him, Anyone

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato

Democracy, Liberty, Tyranny

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry

Life, Peace, God

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell

Peace, Strength, War

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Freedom, Equality, Rather

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer

Life, Freedom, Living

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
George Washington

Living, Plan, Wishes

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion, Mankind, Reform

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin

Time, Father, Long

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Plato

Study, Memory, Studies

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato

Liberty, Lies, State

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
Huey Newton

Moment, Subject, Slaves

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

Government, Reason, Governed

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
Mike Tyson

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

Women, True, Name

A great fortune is a great slavery.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake

Hate, Human, Liberty

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell

Today, Made, America

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II

Freedom, Today, True

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Few, Takes, Hold

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
Andy Warhol

Born, Kidnapped, Sold

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
Helen Hayes

Gilded, Stardom

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
Bertrand Russell

Power, Beautiful, Hated

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke

Weed, Grows, Soil

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky

Life, Work, Joy

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George Eliot

To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Death, Extent, Liken

This war is not about slavery.
Robert E. Lee

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
John Ruskin

Sign, Price, Bought

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