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In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children (Slavery Quotes)
I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed? (Slavery Quotes)
There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence. The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has, through the dead and desolate years, slowly and painfully advanced (Slavery Quotes)
Dumb academicians cannot comprehend their slavery to counterfeit word and its evil. Word enslaves mind. Talking dog could enslave humanity. Teachers enslave you stupid (Slavery Quotes)
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 (Slavery Quotes)
It is a great law of social development that the movement from slavery to freedom is also a movement from security to insecurity of maintenance (Slavery Quotes)
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is (Slavery Quotes)
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets (Slavery Quotes)
Sometimes slavery is founded upon the inferiority of one race to another; and then it appears in its most agreeable garb, for the system may be necessary to tame and civilize a race of savages (Slavery Quotes)
The essence of slavery is that it takes from the producer all he produces, except just enough to keep the producer in working condition (Slavery Quotes)
Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice…. None is a slave whose acts are free (Slavery Quotes)
The travesty of slavery wasn’t physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal (Slavery Quotes)
The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative (Slavery Quotes)
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 (Slavery Quotes)
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will (Slavery Quotes)
That man is deceived who thinks it slavery to live under an excellent prince. Never does liberty appear in a more gracious form than under a pious king (Slavery Quotes)
When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace (Slavery Quotes)
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion (Slavery Quotes)
To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world (Slavery Quotes)
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 (Slavery Quotes)
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? (Slavery Quotes)
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie (Slavery Quotes)
The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves (Slavery Quotes)
Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations (Slavery Quotes)
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery (Slavery Quotes)
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime (Slavery Quotes)
The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed (Slavery Quotes)
The inherited tradition is that we don’t tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It’s told through the president or the lawyer (Slavery Quotes)
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America (Slavery Quotes)
The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react (Slavery Quotes)