slavery Quotes

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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“Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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“Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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“So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then on”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“men have become the tools of their tools.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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“The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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“There is no slave but the creature that wills against its creator.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

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