Slavery Freedom Quotes

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.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

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

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

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.

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

Better to starve free than be a fat 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.

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

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

He who controls the past controls the future.

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

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.