Top 30 Quotes About Slavery And Chains

#1. Well sir, if slavery is freedom then I'm glad I don't have to make a meal of it. Whips and chains are not much to my taste.

Amitav Ghosh

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#2. Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

Dennis Green

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#3. No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#4. It is better to die in the field of honour than to live in the chains of slavery;

Matthew Henry

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#5. It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.

Louis J. Halle

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#6. Do you not enslave people now?" asks the man. "Chains are forged of many strange metals. Poverty is one. Fear, another. Ritual and custom are yet more. All actions are forms of slavery, methods of forcing people to do what they deeply wish not to do.

Robert Jackson Bennett

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#7. Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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#8. Regent, Boris Godonof, riveted the chains of slavery upon the wrists of many millions of human beings in Russia.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

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#9. However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

Jane Porter

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#10. Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

Mary Augusta Ward

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#11. Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands ...

Booker T. Washington

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#12. Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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#13. Vampire Willow Rosenberg: In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Writers

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#14. It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#15. Embodiments know not what slavery may be where minds in shackles and chains put nature to shame
Mind, shallow or neat, are found where thoughts may run deep, a family whereacceptance is free, and readers where reception is key.
Say minds may run free.

Dew Platt

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#16. The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#17. And oft the blessed time foretells
When all men shall be free;
And musical, as silver bells,
Their falling chains shall be.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#18. No matter what chains are broken, slavery is a condition of the heart.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

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#19. Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

Frederick Douglass

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#20. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

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#21. Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery.

Terry Goodkind

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#22. see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment.

Colson Whitehead

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#23. To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

Idries Shah

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#24. Was there not wage slavery? Were there not the chains of financial oppression?

Colum McCann

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#25. Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.

David Batstone

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#26. Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

John Oliver Killens

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#27. I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

William Wells Brown

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#28. Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains.

Aisha Mirza

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#29. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.

Ronald Reagan

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#30. Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark ... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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