Explore Quotes on Slavery

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

The U.S. Constitution has absorbed the end of slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights and Watergate.

There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.

Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that.

For anyone who has ever asked why the U.S. needs to address the issue of reparations for its history of slavery, Donald Trump is why. He is the living embodiment of America's unresolved issues.

I sold my sword. I have no regrets for it. It went for a good cause. It went to buy kids out of slavery.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

You can't take our people from Africa and put us in a diaspora and spread us all over the world. And we survived slavery - and we can't pass a test? ... And you're gonna tell me we can't learn how to write? Have you lost your mind? We are survivors. That's all we do is survive.

From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.

The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, 'Gladiator' suggests what would happen if someone made a movie of the imminent extreme-football league and shot it as if it were a Chanel commercial.

Tammany Hall and slavery usually found 'The Herald' on their side.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.

I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.

There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America... hundreds of people were set up in work camps, and hereditary-forced labor was put in place. That's a very different thing than the personal slavery that existed elsewhere.

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.