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Friday, May 17th, 2024
the Seventh Week after Easter
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Slavery'

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Socialism means slavery.
Lord Acton, British Historian (1834-1902)
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
John Quincy Adams, American President (1767-1848)
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
Tatyana Ali, American Actress (1979-  )
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
Mary Astell, English Writer (1666-1731)
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.
Roy Ayers, English Musician (1940-  )
If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.
Leonard Bacon, American Clergyman (1802-  )
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary (1814-1876)
If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
Amiri Baraka, American Poet (1934-  )
I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
Max Beckmann, German Artist (1884-1950)
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Isaiah Berlin, Russian Philosopher (1909-1997)
I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.
Marion Berry, American Politician (1942-  )
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, American Clergyman (1825-1921)
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake, English Poet (1757-1827)
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. Du Bois, American Writer (1868-1963)
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
Julian Bond, American Activist (1940-  )
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.
William Wells Brown, American Activist
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown, American Writer (1944-  )
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman (1729-1797)
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
Octavia Butler, American Writer (1947-2006)
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.
Henry Charles Carey, American Economist (1793-1879)
 
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