Top 1200 Abolition Of Slavery Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons - but it was a lie that you regained your freedom once you left the prison gates.

If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better understanding.

Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy.

Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.

The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.

The U.S. Constitution has absorbed the end of slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights and Watergate.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.

TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

I cannot ignore this reality, and I encourage my all colleagues to join me in this fight to end modern day slavery in our own backyard.

The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is the only one that has survived to the 21st century!

I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with confidence that most readers will share his sense of concern and indignation. Sounding the call to action-convincing people that change is not only necessary, but actually possible-is more problematic. In protecting animals from cruelty, it is always just one step from the mainstream to the fringe. To condemn the wrong is obvious, to suggest its abolition radical.

The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.

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.

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.

Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn't even say that.

A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

The main challenge Not For Sale is big and it is modern day slavery, which is a $32billion dollar industry second to the illegal trade of drugs and arms.

Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.

Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

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

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

[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the nuclear danger that some of its parents felt, neither has it developed the deep attachment to nuclear arms also often found among their parents, including most of the governing class. ... The call for abolition should therefore be, among other things, a call from an older generation to younger one.

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.

Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.

The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.