Slavery Quotes - Page 5

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting-or even demanding-their own enslavement.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

They support freedom for themselves and slavery for everyone else, and they use the freedom of the market to disguise this fact. Economic coercion is just a different form of force, which they couple with the fraud of calling it freedom. I was like them, but I will never be like them again.

Slaves do not have the bravery of free men.

The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom; it was the lack of desiring freedom.

Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it.

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

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

Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.

Illusions of freedom will never satisfy me.

Out of slavery, freedom -yes, & roses from the pig's behind.

America has a unique type of slavery that looks like freedom.

As a rule,
I believe people shouldn't follow rules;
rules should follow people.

Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations.

Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence.

You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?

You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase.