Collection Of Sayings And Quotations About Slavery
1. Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.
- Marcus Garvey
2. Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.
- Nelson Mandela
3. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
- Frederick Douglass
4. Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
- Nina Simone
5. Slavery must cease to exist. There can be no doubt on this subject.
- Elijah P. Lovejoy
6. A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
- Ezra Pound
7. Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.
- Huey Newton
8. A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
- Rita M. Brown
9. Where slavery is, there liberty cannot be; and where liberty is, there slavery cannot.
- Abraham Lincoln
10. The prolonged slavery of women is darkest page in human history.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
11. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau
12. Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.
- Jose Marti
13. Slavery is an institution for converting men to monkeys.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
- Wayne Dyer
15. We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods.
- Kevin Bales
