Slavery quotes

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◆ Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln100

◆ Don't let your LOYALTY become SLAVERY. If they DON'T Appreciate what you bring to the table...Then LET THEM EAT ALONE!

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◆ If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly

- Martin Luther99

◆ Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you.

- James Allen99

◆ May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice or virtue... In the new laws, may torture not be allowed. (Castillian Spanish: Que la esclavitud se proscriba para siempre y lo mismo la distinci?e castas, quedando todos iguales, y s?distinguir? un americano de otro el vicio y la virtudQue en la nueva legislaci?o se admita la tortura.)

- 99

◆ Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ There is no slavery but ignorance.

- Robert Green Ingersoll99

◆ I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

- Ralph Ellison99

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

- Jonathan Swift99

◆ Where annual elections end, there slavery begins

- John Adams99

◆ We must escape this monotony, this slavery of our minds, We have not achieved complete freedom yet.

- Kate Miller99

◆ No man is free who is a slave to the flesh

- Seneca99

◆ Better to starve free than be a fat slave

- Aesop99

◆ The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice or virtue... In the new laws, may torture not be allowed. (Castillian Spanish: Que la esclavitud se proscriba para siempre y lo mismo la distinci³n de castas, quedando todos iguales, y s³lo distinguir¡ a un americano de otro el vicio y la virtud¦Que en la nueva legislaci³n no se admita la tortura.)

- Jose Maria Morelos Y Pavón99