All Quotes, Slavery

35+ Slavery Quotes

Slavery is a curse. Slavery is officially up rooted from the world. But in various meaning slavery is still in our society. This is a collection of 37 slavery quotes and sayings.


Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. Edmund Burke
Slavery is a state so improper, so degrading, and so ruinous to the feelings and capacities of human nature, that it ought not to be suffered to exist. - Edmund Burke
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. - Robert G. Ingersoll
Slavery is theft -- theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne. - Kevin Bales
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. - Euripides
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style. - W. H. Auden
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it, is his love of justice. - Abraham Lincoln
Slavery discourages arts and manufactures. - George Mason
Slavery and freedom cannot exist together. - Ernestine Rose
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. - Mahatma Gandhi
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. - Plato
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. - George Orwell
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. - Andy Warhol
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! - Marcus Garvey
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. - W. E. B. Du Bois
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. - Maria Weston Chapman
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him. - Frederick Douglass
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. - Montesquieu
Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope. - Abraham Lincoln
There is no slavery but ignorance. - Robert Green Ingersoll
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it. - Paul Mooney
Where annual elections end where slavery begins. - John Quincy Adams
No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery. - Dorothea Dix
Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave. - Mike Tyson
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. - Harriet Ann Jacobs
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. - Maxim Gorky
Stardom can be a gilded slavery. - Helen Hayes
Colonialism is the cousin of slavery. - Chadwick Boseman
To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery. - Algernon Sidney
Slavery was ungodly, unrighteous, and unbiblical. - Tony Evans
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic. - Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure. - Mo Ibrahim
Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history. - John Ridley
Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world. - Lisa Kristine
No pope ever condemned slavery. - Joseph McCabe
Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery. - Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery. - Aeschylus
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