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| Bättre att svälta i frihet än att vara en fet slav. | Aesop |
| Skillnaden mellan en slav och en medborgare är att slaven lyder under sin herre och medborgaren under lagarna. Det kan hända att herren är mycket godhjärtad och lagarna mycket stränga. Det förändrar ingenting. Det hela ligger i avståndet mellan nycker och regler. | Simone Weil (1909-1943) |
| Varje tid har sina slavar. Vi har också våra och uppgiften måste alltid vara att ta reda på hur slaveriet ska upphävas. | Suzanne Brügger |
| Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. | Maria W. Chapman |
| In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing. | Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) |
| When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form. | Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) |
| The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted | Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) |
| For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. | Bruce Barton (1886-1967) |
| The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Life without the courage for death is slavery | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing. | Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) |
| Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| No pope ever condemned slavery | Joseph McCabe |
| Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. | Maria W. Chapman |
| Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| There is no slavery but ignorance. | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| No man is free who is a slave to the flesh | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| "We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their service, and we must decide whether that element should be with us or "against us". Emancipation, will strike at the heart of the rebellion." Said to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| “By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the school-house, established the Church, encircled the globe with her ships, and made her books and her papers to be as blades of grass and as leave of the Summer for number. But in the South, labor, a badge of shame, is the father of misery. The slave labors, but with no cheer—it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens’ trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.” | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you. | James Allen (1864-1942) |
| Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |