Slave Quotes

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.

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.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Farewell, ole Maser, don’t think hard of me, I’m going on to Canada, where all the slaves are free.

Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.