#slavery

A great fortune is a great slavery. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#great #slavery

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? ↗

— William H. Seward

#boundaries #constitution #dangers #enlarge #how

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state. ↗

— William H. Seward

#latitude #law #maintenance #makes #northern

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery. ↗

— William H. Seward

#christian #christian nation #establish #free #nation

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery. ↗

— William H. Seward

#establish #founded #free #free state #had

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro? ↗

— Stephen Douglas

#controversy #done #far #free #important

It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#defeat #difficult #fell #into #kosovo

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#human-rights #politics #slavery #suffrage #knowledge

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers. ↗

— Angela Y. Davis

#denial #history #memory #slavery #imagination

All people are enslaved by something. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #people #poetry #poetry-quotes