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“There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“To enslave men, successfully and safely, it is necessary to have their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived. A certain degree of attainable good must be kept before them.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“We were both victims to the same overshadowing evil—she, as mistress, I, as slave.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog; but, feed and clothe him well, - work him moderately - surround him with physical comfort, - and dreams of freedom intrude. Give him a bad master, and he aspires to a good master; give him a good master, and he wishes to become his own master.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a manner as to make them as glad of their ending as of their beginning. Their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“and stature commanding and exact—in intellect richly endowed—in natural eloquence a prodigy—in soul manifestly "created but a little lower than the angels"—yet a slave, ay, a fugitive slave,—trembling for his safety, hardly daring to believe”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“Should a slave, when assaulted, but raise his hand in self defense, the white assaulting party is fully justified by southern, or Maryland, public opinion, in shooting the slave down.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“Slavery blunts the edge of all our rebukes of tyranny abroad - the criticisms that we make upon other nations, only call forth ridicule, contempt, and scorn. In a word, we are made a reproach and a by-word to a mocking earth, and we must continue to be so made, so long as slavery continues to pollute our soil.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.
Quote by -Hilaire Belloc
“Our world has created a false unrealistic image of what women are supposed to look like and act like. But the truth is that every woman was not created by God to be skinny, with a flawless complexion and long flowing hair. Not every woman was intended to juggle a career as well as all of the other duties of being a wife, mother, citizen, and daughter. Single women should not be made to feel they are missing somenthing because they are not married. Married women should not be made to feel they must have a career to be complete. We must have the freedom to be our individual selves.”
Quote by -Joyce Meyer
“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”
Quote by -Benjamin Disraeli
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
Quote by -Abraham Lincoln
“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.”
Quote by -Bob Marley
"Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians."
Quote by -Alexander The Great
"Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?"
Quote by -Dorothy Day
"The Prisoner All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out of!"
Quote by -Edna St. Vincent Millay
"You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination."
Quote by -F. Scott Fitzgerald
I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?
Quote by -Jamie Foxx
With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.
Quote by -Jamie Foxx
I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher at Lincoln High School in Dallas. So, I was already familiar with the N-word and the brutality of slavery. What I was drawn to was the love story between Django and Broomhilda and how he defends and gets the girl in the end. I thought it was just an amazing and courageous project.
Quote by -Jamie Foxx
MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
Quote by -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating [in the process] has always seem to me an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
Quote by -Booker T Washington
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists
Quote by -Booker T Washington
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
Quote by -Booker T Washington
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.
Quote by -Muhammad Ali
Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson