Slavery Quotes

15 quotations about Slavery
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Pearl S. Buck · Slavery
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke · Slavery
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
Miguel De Cervantes · Slavery
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
William Cowper · Slavery
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
Diogenes of Sinope · Slavery
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
Wayne Dyer · Slavery
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Slavery
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Vincent Van Gogh · Slavery
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Thomas La Mance · Slavery
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
Jean Jacques Rousseau · Slavery
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
John Ruskin · Slavery
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
John Ruskin · Slavery
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
Seneca · Slavery
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Lysander Spooner · Slavery
I cannot be fired. Slaves have to be sold.
Source Unknown · Slavery

Authors on Slavery

Pearl S. Buck Edmund Burke Miguel De Cervantes William Cowper Diogenes of Sinope Wayne Dyer Ralph Waldo Emerson Vincent Van Gogh Thomas La Mance Jean Jacques Rousseau John Ruskin Seneca Lysander Spooner Source Unknown