Top 1200 American Slavery Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

The buying and selling of women, girls and boys is a frightening modern day form of slavery that must be stopped.

I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

Slavery, first and foremost, was an energy institution. Shackling human muscle was about getting work done.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that.

Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year.

Capitalism in and of itself is based on the monetising of human labour, and the first evidence of that is slavery. And that has never changed. We are all participating in that.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

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

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

Caterpillar exported $20 billion of goods in 2011, all by American hands and American workers, to all over the world. In order to do that, we have to create jobs in all those countries that we export to, to be able to sell there.

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

The American public should know that the Senate report actually reveals that 82% of detainees subjected to enhanced interrogation did, in fact, produce intelligence that saved American lives.

Everyone is happy for the history of slavery to be investigated so long as the investigation examines the parts in which we look good.

It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.

What we do know is that the planet is going from 7 billion people today to 9 billion. More people want to live like us, drive American- size cars, live in an American-size home, and eat American-size Big Macs. What does that mean? It means that energy demand is going to be going up.

The evil of slavery and colonialism was that these oppressions kept their victims out of history, disconnected them from the evolutionary struggle.

American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?

I don't care what people say, it's very difficult to keep a player when they want to go. The age of slavery is dead.

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

We need to fight protectionism with everything that we have because when there's a level playing field and when you have open markets and when free trade is flourishing, American workers, American farmers, Americans are going to benefit.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?

They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

What if history was changed? slavery reversed Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?

Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.