Slavery Quotes

We have peace! And because there is peace, the occupiers can't behave so abominably anymore. All right, we're not free... After all we were born into slavery, and we will die in it. Oh yes, at first they'll exploit us ruthlessly. Fourteen hours of slave labor a day. A bowl of watery soup. Whippings, beatings... But that will pass with time. Because there is peace, they won't have a chance to get any new slaves.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek —
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

We will defeat abortion, just like we did slavery.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

A man chooses, a slave obeys.