Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in belief and practice. He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
There is another ambition that ought to belong to all writers; to bear witness and shout aloud, every time it is possible, insofar as our talent allows, for those who are enslaved as we are. That is the very ambition you questioned in your article and I shall consistently refuse your right to question it […]
Slavery may change its form or its name – its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else’s work. In antiquity… slaves were, in all honesty, […]
Know, O Proud Heart of Fear, that in those days there were no kings and queens, no lords and vassals. In the countless millennia before Everon, known also as the Age of Man, there were only masters and slaves. The masters were ancient, as practiced at cruelty as the stars at shining. They were more […]
Ann Simons Ball was near equal to her husband in plantation management and evidently had a military style, which left her with the family nickname “Captain Nancy.”… When John Jr. was out of town, Ann wrote her husband to report that she had personally whipped her laundress, Betty, for not cleaning the bath towels properly.
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There […]
John Ball and his kin were customers of the Work House, a city-run institution for the imprisonment and torture of Charleston’s slaves… The Work House employed civil servants who whipped black people (in soundproof rooms that muffled screams) at the request of their owners or of the police, at twenty-five cents per flogging… Angelina Grimke […]
Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master […]
