Slavery Quotes

"Work without love is slavery." "No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved" "I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery" "The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free" "The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves." "You know all men and women are created equal. End of quote. We’ve never lived up to it. Jefferson never lived up to it, he held slaves. Women were excluded" "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." "For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees" "Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave" "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots " "This is the struggle of every person: be free or be a slave." "A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him." "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves" "Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains" "Where annual elections end where slavery begins" "Poverty in democracy is as much to be preferred to so-called prosperity under despots, as freedom to slavery." "Wealth is the slave of the wise man, the master of the fool." "Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny"