Slave Quotes

Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors… so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.