Home / Topics / Slavery Quotes

Slavery Quotes

Browse 2495 quotes about Slavery.

Slavery Quotes

“We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.”

Ifs War Law Failing Constitution Slavery Slave Operations Hereafter Fugitive

Author:Jay Sekulow

“Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.”

Mind Has Beens States Perfect Failing Slavery Slave Acknowledge State Of Mind

Book:Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

“Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember . . . You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.”

Doe Remember Time Lost Effort Failing Laughter Slavery Slave Feminist Good Times Recollection Inventing Remember You Remembers You Bathing Wording

Author:Monique Wittig

“If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.”

Ifs May America Faces Goal Freedom Destiny Failing Slavery Cruelty Opposition Tied Our Destiny Tied Up Scorned

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.”

Easy Virtue Failing Republican Slavery Corruption Piety

Book:Selected Writings of Thomas Paine

Source: Selected Writings of Thomas Paine

“Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.”

Made War Failing Slavery Brown Republic American Slavery John Brown

Book:Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn

Source: Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn