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.
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
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.
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside.
Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know.
