#slavery

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery? ↗

— Tatyana Ali

#been #democracy #ever #institution #slavery

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. ↗

— Angela Davis

#became #been #death #death penalty #had

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic. ↗

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#slavery

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. ↗

— William Blake

#cannot #half #hate #human #human race

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#fight #intellectually #life #must #reaction

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

#brothers #build #captive #chains #constitution

Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#circumstances #event #expect #had #may

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

#almighty god #chains #course #dear #death

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#intelligence #progress #slavery #think #freedom

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#slavery