Slavery Quotes

The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Socialism means slavery.

The Book of Negroes recites the pain, misery and liberation of one African woman, Aminata Diallo, who was stolen from her homeland and sold into American slavery.

Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora.

My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal.

To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.