George Melville Weston Quotes

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

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

The very idea that human beings are held in bondage is sickening.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

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

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Every slave is a stolen man.

I am a firm believer in slavery.

Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.

There is no freedom in peaceful slavery.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

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.

When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

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