#slave

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished. ↗

— George Grey

#chance #chief #concerned #consists #little

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#festive #freedom #garment #good #home

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civilization #european #exists #name #now

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#creator #enslaved #meter #our #poetry

There is no slavery but ignorance. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#slavery

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#born #country #hast #inhabitant #made

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist. ↗