Slaves Quotes


You've got black guys and white guys and slaves and freed men and an Indian sitting around on the job drinking rum together. It doesn't mean that all day it was peace and love and harmony on the job site, but it's not what we picture when we say people were enslaved to work on University Hall. So there are nuances to this. History is messy. - Robert Emlen



You deserve to be slaves. - Denmark Vesey



You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build. - Sean O'Casey



You are paying three or four times what you borrowed. I use the term indentured slaves. You become indentured to them because they never get paid off. - Bruce Hamlett



Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious. - Fanny Kemble



With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying. - Frederick Law Olmsted



With his father and his mother, with female relatives, with a brother, with his son and his wife, with his daughter and with his slaves, let him not have quarrels. - Guru Nanak



Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. - Douglas Hurd



Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton? - Spike Lee



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