It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.
One of the hugest ways that will make an impact, which is only in its infancy right now, is corporate accountability. Consumers at the buying point saying, 'Can you certify to me that this product is slavery-free?' And most cannot right now.
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.
Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.
As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union that men should be bought and sold like cattle.
We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.
I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.
We, the Black people of America, were chosen by Allah: Not to be "special" in the sense that we are better than others, but chosen because of the uniqueness of our position inside of America, and 460 years under slavery, neo-slavery, and injustice, to carry a message to the whole of humanity.
We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
All religion is slavery.
I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time,. . . Clinton was the first person ever to make a formal apology to black people for slavery, which was very warm and appreciated. But African-Americans haven't healed at all. The wound is still very open. And seeing the differences in how people live, it just puts salt in it- constantly. Seeing the way we're treated within these United States. . . it burns you even more every day.
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
We are never really beyond it. . . slavery continues to this day.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact