Political Slavery Quotes

#1. This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#2. We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery. We in the church are saying no. We are prepared to live by what God says, not what you say. Man shall not sleep with man, woman shall not sleep with woman.

Peter Akinola

#3. Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

Mikhail Bakunin

#4. The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.

Sarah Churchwell

#5. Don't be afraid, just play the music.

Charlie Parker

#6. It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.

John H. Reagan

#7. I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

Meat Loaf

#8. History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#9. Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

Carly Simon

#10. I want to be a working actor; I want to do jobs that excite me and challenge me, and I want to something fun.

Nathan Fillion

#11. Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others.

Clara Winston

#12. We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

Abraham Lincoln

#13. We have let Eros mean slavery, but Eros also has the power to set us free. We must demand the right to depict women's lives as we know them, not as we might like them to be. We must stop applying political prescriptions to creativity.

Erica Jong

#14. Preparing you for these two questions is the goal of this book. The first question will determine where you spend eternity. The second question will determine what you do in eternity. By the end of this book you will be ready to answer both questions.

Rick Warren

#15. Although we had been warned by some of the greatest political thinkers of the nineteenth century, by Tocqueville and Lord Acton, that socialism means slavery, we have steadily moved in the direction of socialism.

Friedrich Hayek

#16. In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

Robert E.Lee

#17. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#18. I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

Julie Walters

#19. African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.

Laurence M. Keitt

#20. The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.

Frederick Lenz

#21. The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.

Sheryl WuDunn

#22. Multiplied - the South went through the Reconstruction with only one permanent political change: there was no more slavery. The people became no less than what they were to begin with - in some cases they became horrifyingly more.

Harper Lee

#23. African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

Jefferson Davis

#24. This is not the way I wanted it to be, that single honey said, but it was the way it was.

Cheryl Strayed

#25. If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly reject that assumption - that John Ashcroft is a openminded, inclusive person.

George W. Bush

#26. I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

Louis C.K.

#27. So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.

Bernard Baruch

#28. If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.

John Quincy Adams

#29. Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil ...

Abraham Lincoln

#30. Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

Erica Jong

#31. Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and 'Pas trop gouverner' are at war with all kinds of slavery, for they in fact assert that individuals and peoples prosper most when governed least.

George Fitzhugh

#32. Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

James Madison

#33. Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS

William Lloyd Garrison

#34. There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

Robert E.Lee

#35. As if political liberty made wage slavery any the more tolerable!

Upton Sinclair

#36. All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

Alexander Herzen

#37. Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Carl Bernstein