| "Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde |
| "...The electoral franchise has been conferred upon the Negroes in almost all the states in which slavery has been abolished, but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in danger... The same schools do not receive the children of the black and of the European. In the theaters gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their former masters in the hospitals they lie apart... Not only is slavery prohibited in Ohio, but no free Negroes are allowed to enter the territory of that state or to hold property in it." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
| "There is no slavery but ignorance." »Robert G. Ingersoll |
| "Debt is the slavery of the free." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Life without the courage for death is slavery." »Seneca |
| "The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself." »Seneca |
| "Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery." »Lawana Blackwell |
| "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him." »Homer |
| "Those who set out nobly to be their brother's keeper sometimes end up by becoming his jailer. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie." »I. F. Stone |
| "It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible destroy their family and work ethic." »Walter Williams |
| "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death" »Patrick Henry |
| "The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit" »Heinrich Heine |
| "When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form." »Simone de Beauvoir |
| "In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
| "When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery." »Maxim Gorky |
| "Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery." »Jameson Green |
| "Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
| "A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." »Rita Mae Brown |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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