Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
Charles de Secondat

Socialism means slavery.
Lord Acton

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

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
Helen Hayes

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.
Charles Rangel

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

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.
Alan Keyes

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.
Lajos Kossuth

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
Robert Toombs

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

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
Gerrit Smith

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. Du Bois

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
Caleb Cushing

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
James A. Garfield

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.
Ezra Cornell

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
Charles de Secondat

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.
John H. Reagan

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
Alice Walker