Best slavery & ignorance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.”

“Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.”

People Long Virtue Progress Crime Ignorance Hero Slavery Moved Depth Monsters Lowest Prodigies

Book:History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution. From Unpublished Sources

Source: History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution. From Unpublished Sources

“Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.”

Whole Culture Parent Ignorance Slavery Vices Folly Hostile Begets

Book:The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

Source: The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

“This is what I hold against slavery. May come a time when I forgive - cause I don't think I'm set up to forget - the beatings, the selling, the killings, but I don't think I ever forgive the ignorance they kept us in.”

Thinking May Causes Forget Ignorance Slavery Forgiving Killing Selling

Author:Sherley Anne Williams

“The first thing Islam does is to destroy the self image of the believers. It convinces them that without Islam they are worthless creatures only fit for hellfire. It tells them that their culture is jahelyyah (ignorance) and their ancestral religion was taaghoti (satanic). They are made to despise their identity and selfhood and seek their glory in their submission to Islam and slavery to its deity who was Muhammad's own alter ego.”

Firsts Doe Made Self Culture Identity Ignorance Fit Creatures Ego Glory Slavery Islam Believer Convince Despise Worthless Submission Deities Muhammad Satanic Alter Ego

Author:Ali Sina

“If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.”

People Ifs I Can Different Accepting Atheism Ignorance Slavery Persecution Different Faiths

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.”

Men Mind Parent Levels Produce Ignorance Fellows Slavery Woods Observation Comparison Domination Barbarism Abhorrence Tenants

Book:Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

“Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!”

“Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.”

Whole Mother Father Ignorance Slavery Slave Oppression Mentality Twins Whole Family Ignorance And Fear

Author:Ameen Rihani

“There is no slavery but ignorance.”

Ignorance Slavery

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)”

Form Worst Ignorance Slavery Paraphrased

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.”

Self Form Hate Results Poverty Crime Ignorance Slavery Self Hate Mental Slavery

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.”

People Has Beens Used Ignorance Tools Slavery Instruments

Author:Daniel Pinchbeck

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

“Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.”

Men May Fighting Evil Individual Goal Poverty Ignorance Revolution Slavery Injustice Variety Reform Collectives Live By Setting Goals Predictable Berlin Fighting Evil

Author:Isaiah Berlin

“Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery”

Ignorance Slavery

Book:Miles

Source: Miles

“Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.”

Men Mind Ignorance Pride Activity Labor Slavery Luxury Introducing Distress Idleness Power Of The Mind Dishonor

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise, - all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free.”

Source: Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1878-1886

“The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.”

“It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine of fifty dollars and a jail sentence. . . Our ignorance was the greatest hold the South had on us. We knew we could run away, but what then?”

Ifs Men Trying Running Law White Ignorance Fine Slavery Dollars Slave South Caught Sentences Fifty Jail Educate Running Away White Man Liable Prosecution

Author:John W. Campbell

“The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.”

People Firsts Reason Ignorance Slavery

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”

War Faces Three White Party Ignorance Slavery Elegant Slogans Ignorance In 1984

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.”

Knows Men Way War Fighting Found Force Generations Middle Century Produce Ignorance Slavery Have Faith Intolerance Twentieth Century Future Generation Good Will

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”

Thinking Reality Political Politics Ignorance Civilization Slavery Desert Empires Portions Careless Pretense Slaughter

Author:Tacitus

“I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.”

Men World May Born Generations Ignorance Slavery Perceive Riding Deluded Saddles Ugh

Author:Richard Rumbold

“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.”

Individual Nations Ignorance Equal Increase Slavery Democratic Equality Proportion Subjection Enamored

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole”

Wealth Ignorance Opposites Slavery Misery Agony Toil Accumulation Brutality Degradation

Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

“To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.”

School Education Knowledge Ignorance Slavery Employment Education System Employees Slaves

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy, war, law, religious or political liberty, or the rights of men, women and children, what is it inspired in, or about? The unity of God?—that was believed long before Moses was born. Special providence?—that has been the doctrine of ignorance in all ages. The rights of property?—theft was always a crime. The sacrifice of animals?—that was a custom thousands of years before a Jew existed. The sacredness of life?—there have always been laws against murder. The wickedness of perjury?—truthfulness has always been a virtue. The beauty of chastity?—the Pentateuch does not teach it. Thou shalt worship no other God?—that has been the burden of all religions.”

Source: Some Mistakes of Moses

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