Slavery Quotes

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.

Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery .

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.

There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts we wear and the tomatoes we eat. There are unfortunately unfair and inhumane conditions – including literal slavery – all over the world.

The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people… The slavery of animals has to be ended too.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to – by genealogy at least – a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I’ve ever read about slavery before.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.