Quotes on Slavery Freedom

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

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.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.