Olive Schreiner Quotes

We've got some new ways to make slaves here.

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.

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

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.

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

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.

My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.

We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

Slavery is a condition imposed upon individuals or races not sufficiently able to protect or defend themselves, and so long as a race or people expose themselves to the danger of being weak, no one can tell when they will be reduced to slavery.

[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

Slavery can never be abolished.

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

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

This is about slavery.

That’s a slave talking.

Slavery is the cause of treason and sustains it everywhere it exists.

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.