Best slavery & suffering Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.”

Has Beens Suffering Found Nations Abuse Slavery Ruins Officers Inconvenience Imposition Inspection

Book:A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana

Source: A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana

“Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.”

Humans Important Earth Suffering Animal Slavery Innocent Saving Plus Animal Rights Ecology Saving Animals

Author:Adela Popescu

“We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation ... we would stop it. ... If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction.”

People Ifs Feels Persons War Would Be Pain Suffering Dies Streets Six Destruction Slavery Prison Killing Breasts Throat Seconds Starvation That One Person Bowels

Author:Julian Beck

“I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves scars that are very, very deep. And unless we collectively address them and really put our effort to healing them, they'll perpetuate. The United States of America are still suffering from the echoes of slavery. I think we're still reeling from all the pain that is a result of it, and that's a reality.”

Thinking Reality Pain Suffering Evil Dark Effort Healing Slavery Scar Very Deep

Author:Ani DiFranco

“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”

Source: History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards

“Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.”

Suffering Slavery Profit Protection Monopoly Defenders

Book:ESSAYS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY

Source: ESSAYS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY

“Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.”

Want Whole Christian Suffering Enjoy Creatures Fellows Slavery Neighbor Plenty Code Ease Meals Coats

Author:James F. Cooper

“Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.”

Thinking Facts Suffering Conditions Style Masters Habit Slavery Slave Command Delusion Obliged Be A Slave Personal Style Masters And Slaves

Author:W. H. Auden

“Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he wrote to her: "The miracle occurred; I realized that in addition to all the suffering I had caused, I was not my own master. I decided this slavery must stop once and for all." And it did.”

Suffering My Own Decision Struggle Masters Husband Decided Miracle Slavery Decades I Realized Alcoholism Drunkenness Duchess

Author:Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

“If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone... we must be compassionate!”

“People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But people who tamely allow slavery to be imposed on them without resorting to a defensive war are inevitably doomed to years of death and suffering-and far more of each than any war would bring to them....The army doesn't exist that can annihilate men in their own land-not if they love it sufficiently.”

People Ifs Men Years May War Suffering Order Winning Land Army Slavery Antiwar Doomed

Author:Kenneth Roberts

“Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.”

Men Self Suffering Fire Madness Slavery Deny Clock Beast Martyr Elementals Chained

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently for himself alone and so discover the ultimate peace and freedom.”

Persons God Pain Past Purpose Suffering Order Given Cases Ultimate Slavery Patterns Storm God Love Jonah Past Wrongs

Book:Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

“Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which we now fear, originates chiefly from questions growing out of the respective rights of the different States and the unfortunate subject of slavery.”

Different War Country States Suffering Evil Causes President Growing Rights Subjects Slavery Civil War Unfortunate Discontent

Author:John J. Crittenden

“As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide. The women, exhausted by labor, have shunned conception and childbirth . . . Many, when pregnant, have taken something to abort and have aborted. Others after delivery have killed their children with their own hands, so as not to leave them in such oppressive slavery.”

Children Hard Hands Suffering Results Taken Mass Hundred Labor Slavery Suicide Committed Chosen Conception Pregnant Exhausted Delivery Childbirth

Book:Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.”

Men Trying May Form Suffering Girl Literature Imagination Imagine Genius Slavery Being A Girl

Author:George Eliot

“Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found.”

Children Might Suffering Order Found Christ Sin Liberty Greater Grace All Things Slavery Deeper Redemption Child Of God Fear Of Love Deeper Love

Author:Peter Abelard

“The years in captivity fuels character development”

Character Suffering Wise Words Slavery Captivity Philsophy Imprison

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only master of all is the Creator, and he created all men to be free. Freedom is a God-given right, not a human-granted gift. No man should have to fight to breathe in good health and peace.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) have to think long and hard whether they want to continue research that will help their government remain the world's superpower. All the scientists who worked in and for Germany in the 1930s lived to regret that they directly helped a sociopath like Hitler harm millions of people. Let us not repeat the same mistakes over and over again.”

“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper, worn finer by the friction of history. "So you were slaves? So what?" They whisper, like it's nothing. But to the people who live through a slave rebellion, both those who take their dominance for granted, until it comes for them in the dark, and those who would see the world burn before enduring one moment longer in their place. That is not a metaphor, Essun. Not hyperbole. I did watch the world burn. Say nothing to me of innocent bystanders, unearned suffering, heartless vengeance. When a comm builds atop a fault line, do you blame its walls when they inevitably crush the people inside? No; you blame whoever was stupid enough to think they could defy the laws of nature forever. Well, some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares. Don’t lament when those worlds fall. Rage that they were built doomed in the first place.”

Inspirational Suffering Revolution Slavery Vengeance

Author:N.K. Jemisin

“Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder, you're seen! You will not build a house again. All your rafters broken, the ridge pole destroyed, gone to the Unformed, the mind has come to the end of craving.”

Life Death Desire Suffering Birth Slavery Betrayal Motherhood Craving Conditioning

Book:The Dhammapada

Source: The Dhammapada

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