#avery

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. ↗

— William Weld

#government #greatest #never #nineteenth #nineteenth century

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#ann #better #business #confirmed #growing

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#freeing #grasp #human #human mind #itself

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#father #form #less #odious #profession

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#joy #life #life is a #pleasure #slavery

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#christian #demoralizing #die #exert #exerted

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote. ↗

— Gary Steiner

#domestication #injustice #justice #morality #oppression

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#acts #bravery #certain #enthusiasm #heroism

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#pursuit #slavery #tool #way #wealth

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#better off #civilization #develop #expense #first