slavery quotes

• 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) [virtue/virtue/slavery/human]
• To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be. (Andre Breton) [imagination/state/slavery/happiness]
• Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. (Edmund Burke) [slavery]
• Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [slavery/men]
• Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [slavery/slavery/slavery/women]
• We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. (Victor Hugo) [slavery/slavery/women/prostitution]
• Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. (Abraham Lincoln) [slavery]
• No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. ( Plato) [trace/slavery/memory]
• The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. (John Ruskin) [slavery/price]
• Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. (Bertrand Russell) [power/slavery]
• A great fortune is a great slavery. ( Seneca) [fortune/slavery]
• Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery. ( Seneca) [slavery/take/slavery]
• Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone... I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave. (Henry David Thoreau) [slavery/men/thing/conscience]
• Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. (Andy Warhol) [being/being/slavery]
• It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature. (Simone Weil) [slave/slavery/condition/time]
• The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. (Oscar Wilde) [human/slavery/slavery/slavery]
• To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. (Virginia Woolf) [form/slavery]
• Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds Won’t you help to sing The songs of freedom? (Bob Marley) [slavery]
• As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. (Julian Bond) [slavery]
• Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition. (Thomas Clarkson) [slavery/time/willpower]

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