Slavery sayings
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- 99◆ None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
- 99◆ Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Kahlil Gibran99◆ Never become a slave to your own thinking and your own self. Understand that you are continuously changing. But, in which way you will change is your free will.
- Ruben Papian99◆ It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am Gods slave, not that of a devil.
- Kedar Joshi99◆ No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate
- Thomas Jefferson99◆ By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the school-house, established the Church, encircled the globe with her ships, and made her books and her papers to be as blades of grass and as leave of the Summer for number. But in the South, labor, a badge of shame, is the father of misery. The slave labors, but with no cheerit is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.
- Henry Ward Beecher99◆ Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs
- Victor Hugo99◆ Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves
- James Madison99◆ The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy99◆ Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty
- Samuel Johnson99◆ "When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals."
- Adolf Hitler99◆ If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
- Martin Luther King Jr99◆ "We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their service, and we must decide whether that element should be with us or "against us". Emancipation, will strike at the heart of the rebellion." Said to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles.
- Abraham Lincoln99◆ I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted
- Frederick Douglass99
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