Andrew Jackson Quotes

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.

A man is the prisoner of his power.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own system of repression.

Captain Sutter keeps from 600-800 Indians in a perfect state of slavery.

Woman was the first human being that tasted bondage. Woman was a slave before the slave existed.

I think enslavement has evolved to what may seem appropriate to this day's generation. Modern enslavement is imprisonment.

There is no freedom in peaceful slavery.

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

All people are enslaved by something.

Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.