Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. Read Summary
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. Read Summary
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. Read Summary
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children. Read Summary
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. Read Summary
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Read Summary
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? Read Summary
When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I've turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I'm still a slave, only my price tag is higher. Read Summary
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune. Read Summary
Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave. Read Summary
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. Read Summary
A great fortune is a great slavery. Read Summary
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Read Summary
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave. Read Summary
I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have. Read Summary
I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater. Read Summary
I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could. Read Summary
I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my mistress's back was turned to me while she was fighting with her husband, so I just put my fingers in the sugar bowl to take one lump, and maybe she heard me, for she turned and saw me. The next minute, she had the rawhide down. Read Summary
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy. Read Summary
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Read Summary