While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.
Habitual, time-hardened slavery may not appear to be a form of violence, while a movement which is directed to the abolition of slavery may appear to be violence.
If that corruption of a slave were not merely unpunished but approved by so great authority (as yours), no walls, no laws, no rights would protect our safety. For when our very own, within the household, can with impunity fly away and fight against us, there is slavery in mastery and mastery in slavery.
Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.
Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him; they crush those beneath them.
The world enslaves our sex by the mere fear of an epithet; and as long as it can throw any vile term at us, before which we cower, it can maintain our enslavement.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
