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.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Salvation through slavery is worthless. Salvation from slavery is inestimable.

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

This filthy enactment (The Fugitive Slave Law) was made in the nineteenth century, by people who could read and write. I will not obey it, by God.

This abomination must have an end. And there is a superior bench reserved in Heaven for those who hasten it.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is man may become robots.

No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate.