Top 1200 American Slavery Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I think when you have so many people working for American-based think tanks and American-based defense companies, there is always going to be a bent towards proposing American-led solutions for foreign problems. People get paid big money in Washington to come up with ways that America can fix problems overseas, and they are not always right.

With its brutal empire and legalised slavery, the Roman Republic was hardly a towering beacon of progressive values.

America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.

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

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.

Borat shows American stereotypes of Eastern Europe but it's an accurate depiction of what a certain type of American is. They think they can buy and sell these girls and then they get bought and sold.

As a patriotic American, I am reluctant to leave my post as director of the National Economic Council because I feel a duty to fulfil my commitment to work on behalf of the American people.

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.

I'm a Democrat because I want every American to have a fair shot at the American Dream. That's what ties it all together for me, and in my experience, that means recognizing that no one is dealing with life one 'issue' at a time.

The American people need to be aware of how the Chinese Communist Party is coming after us, not just with missiles and military might, but with plans to subdue the American spirit.

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.

What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.

When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.

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

Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.

Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

With 'Underground,' we see that the wounds that we all, as a nation, inflicted upon our brothers and sisters during slavery have not been healed.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

As I've written more, and as other Indian American voices have grown around me, I strive harder to find experiences that are unique yet a meaningful and resonant part of the American story.

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

If those who voice opposition to Pope Francis and the direction in which he is leading the church come from other nations but their statements are published on American media platforms, it may appear that they originate in this country or reflect our sentiments. We have our own dissident voices to be sure, but too frequently every challenging voice that criticizes the Holy Father and is broadcast on American media is identified as American in origin.

We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they can get the foreign workers more cheaply. It has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them.

The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.

It'd be nice to claim that the American press, while maintaining objectivity and balancing against bias, is still inherently American - that they are patriots who love this country even as they report on its defects.

The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the one American writer whom the English whole-heartedly admire is Walt Whitman. There, you will hear them say, is the real American undisguised. In the whole of English literature there is no figure which resembles his - among all our poetry none in the least comparable to Leaves of Grass

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

I'm from a Lebanese-American family. And I've been had lot of contacts and - with Arab-American community, especially Arab-American filmmakers and actors and so forth. It's a community that, a minority that really hasn't been heard from enough. And so many of the stories that are told about Arab-Americans these days are just negative portrayals in the news, but also in television and film. So we're - we set out to try and offset some of those stereotypes.

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods

For more than 220 years - from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy, and influence. From this educational freedom the American Republic was born.

I think it's what animates our president-elect [Donald Trump] more than anything else, is a belief in the boundless potential of every American to live the American dream.

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.

As soon as an American man loves a girl he wants to marry her. This is not only a blunder but it is rather absurd. It is so typical of American men, always wanting to do the noble thing.

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just the people of the United States but millions across the face of the globe.

'In the Pines' is a very old song dating back to slavery. Lead Belly made it popular.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

This is so like the way the Americans deliberately erroneously refer to Afghans and Iraqis as terrorists when they fight back killing American soldiers to protect their young from the illegal American invasion.

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

One of the things that makes this so topical right now is that I think there are an awful lot of American men - and women, but I'm a man, so that's what I can talk about - who feel the American dream has let them down.