One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.
It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves.
I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight.
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.
In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how to treat their slaves. "Slaves, obey your masters. Masters, be kind to yourslaves. " Paul was in favor of a kinder and gentler slavery; it never occurred to him to raise the question about whether slavery itself was immoral.
Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.
Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.
Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.
Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.
My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.
From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.