Best slavery & reason Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such 'nations.' ... Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.”

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you! The bright dreams were too rudely dispelled; you were not prepared for the new life that opened before you, and the great masses of the North learned to look upon your helplessness with indifference-learned to speak of you as an idle, dependent race. Reason should have prompted kinder thoughts. Charity is ever kind.”

Source: Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

“Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.”

Humans War Reason Happens Slavery Boredom Human Relations Human Relationships Servitude

Author:Albert Camus

“The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.”

Needs Years Reason Body Light Lasts Literature Term Five Four Hundred Slavery Trade Slave Contact Justify Slave Trade

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.”

Men Mean Reason Character Able Slavery Slave Preserves Servitude Syllables

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.”

Should Wells Mean Said Reason Lasts Form Left Moral Willing Months Slavery Blind Folly Smoking Delightful Pipe Gave Up Solace Fling

Author:James M. Barrie

“Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and reconciliation and the legacy of slavery is that it was such a dominant part of our history.”

Needs Reason Slavery Legacy Reason Why Reaching Dominant Reconciliation American Society

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason. Then slavery came and calls of aggression. But we've been there 600 years and there ain't no peace between black and whites because the cultures are different - like the Chinese and Mexicans cannot integrate: the music is different, the eating is different.”

People Years Different Reason America Culture Black Worst Eating Music Is England Slavery Chinese Ran Aggression Black And White Integrating

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Liberty and freedom were the primary reason that people wanted to come here. They wanted to escape bondage, slavery, tyranny, poverty, whatever, where they lived. It was America that promised a much better life.”

People Reason Wanted America Liberty Poverty Slavery Tyranny Primaries Bondage Better Life Freedom And Liberty

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I don't think that Donald Trump represents the traditional Republican values and heritage of my party. That's one reason that I don't support him. The Republican Party has always revered the individual. We led the way in abolishing slavery, for example, and we recognize the dignity and worth of every human being. it is clear that Donald Trump, by his derogatory comments, by his mocking of the most vulnerable people in our society, by his marginalization of ethnic and religious minorities, doesn't reflect the traditional Republican values.”

People Thinking Reason Values Individual Religious Party Support Republican Dignity Slavery Vulnerable Comment Republican Party

Author:Gwen Ifill

“I don't find the idea of sewing degrading. A thing is degrading when you are forced to do it, through economic reasons or through slavery or some other form of compulsion.”

Reason Economic Slavery Degrading

Author:Margaret Atwood

“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.”

Reason Government Slavery Definitions Consent Consent Of The Governed Pro Slavery

Author:Jonathan Swift

“I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man.”

Thinking Men Feels Made Reason Able Desire Found Moral Vision Plans Conditions Gains Slavery Slave Contentment Be A Man Inconsistency

Book:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”

Thinking Men Want Made Reason Truth Asks Freedom Liberty Slavery Rounds Tyranny Rebellion Tyrants Globes Irresistible Appearing Hunted

Book:Paine: Political Writings

Source: Paine: Political Writings

“For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.”

Reason Humanity Justice Slavery Moved Eras Rules Of Life

Book:The Story of My Life: Sunshine and Shadows of Seventy Years

Source: The Story of My Life: Sunshine and Shadows of Seventy Years

“He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.”

Way Want Mind Humans Soul Reason Light Lying Liberty Moral Influence Institutions Slavery Slave Perpetual Preparing Human Soul

Book:The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

Source: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

“I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.”

Thinking Men Reason Causes Slavery Size Wounds Cures Temporary Settlement Underestimated Plasters Greatest Man Repeated Failure

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“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

“Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.”

Men Humans Reason Form Hate Human Beings Race Color Slavery One Man Another Man Degrading

Book:The Booker T. Washington Papers

Source: The Booker T. Washington Papers

“The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor was not economic, besides being morally wrong. Slavery was destined to be abolished, whether for economic reasons or moral reasons matters not, but the international intriguers were not going to wait for voluntary abolition to rob them of their trump card.”

War Matter Reason Waiting Moral Economic Trump Labor Slavery Slave South International Scales Cards Civil War Owners Destined Abolition Tipping Plantations Slave Labor

Author:John Coleman

“I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason for the planting and spreading of slavery.”

Want Two War States Reason Slavery Civil War Mexican Cuba Confederate

Author:Albert G. Brown

“For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to misery hereafter. The few have said "Think" The many have said "Believe!"”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.”

Men May Reason Form Numbers Pay Poverty Depends Creatures Advantage Claims Independence Slavery Complexes Dependency Kinship Debtors

Author:Andre Gide

“Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.”

Source: Healology

“...you couldn’t just make slaves of men for no reason.”

Reason Freedom Slavery

Book:Oathbringer

Source: Oathbringer

“Mary! Mary! My dear, let me reason with you. I hate reasoning, John,—especially reasoning on such subjects. There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves, when it comes to practice. I know you well enough, John. You don't believe it's right any more than I do; and you wouldn't do it any sooner than I.”

Reason Truth Politics Belief Practice Slavery

Book:Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Source: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Slavery Quotes

Related topics

Slavery Quotes