Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old slavery quotes, slavery sayings, and slavery proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
We'll have our rights; see if we don't; And you can't stop us from them; see if you can.Sojourner Truth
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There should never be another season of silence until women had the same rights everywhere on this green earth, as men.Susan B. Anthony
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Slavery was evil but that, if confined, it will eventually die out.Henry Clay
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I have observed this in my experience of slavery,—that whenever my condition was improved, instead of it increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.Frederick Douglass
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I have found that to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.Frederick Douglass
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The wretchedness of slavery and the blessedness of freedom were perpetually before me. It was life and death to me.Frederick Douglass
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Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog; but, feed and clothe him well,— work him moderately — surround him with physical comfort,— and dreams of freedom intrude.Frederick Douglass
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Away with slavery, the breeder of aristocrats. Up with the Stars and Stripes, symbol of free labor and free men.Andrew Johnson
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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.George Washington
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A house divided against itself cannot stand. / I believe this government cannot endure / permanently, half-slave and half-free.Abraham Lincoln
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free— honourable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth.Abraham Lincoln
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This is what the Lord God of Israel says: 'I brought you out of Egypt and out of the place of slavery. I delivered you from the power of Egypt and the power of all who oppressed you.Judges 6:8
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Christ has liberated us into freedom. Therefore stand firm and don't submit again to a yoke of slavery.Galatians 5:1
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Do you not know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness.Romans 6:16
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.Sylvia Plath
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.Henry David Thoreau
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.George Gordon Byron
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.Frederick Douglass
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry
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But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.C.S. Lewis
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The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.Maxim Gorky
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.George Orwell
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.W.E.B. Du Bois
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.Jonathan Swift
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A great fortune is a great slavery.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.Harriet Tubman
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