Top Slavery Quotes
This war is not about slavery.
Robert E. Lee
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
Stephen Douglas
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
Julian Bond
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.
Bob Marley
I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.
Bob Matsui
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Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
Stephen Douglas 
70% of people like this quote
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
Julian Bond
69% of people like this quote
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.
Bob Marley
67% of people like this quote
I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.
Bob Matsui
63% of people like this quote
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
Bertrand Russell
61% of people like this quote
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
Samuel Hopkins
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In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.
John Sergeant Wise
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Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
William Shakespeare
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