Luc Durtain Quotes

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

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.

That’s a slave talking.

A new kind of slavery will emerge. It will probably adopt the cruelest form of domination the community could impose upon the individual and the state upon the community.

Slavery made the Negro as dependent upon the intelligence and foresight of his master as a soldier upon the will of his commander

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

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, first and foremost, was an energy institution. Shackling human muscle was about getting work done.

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

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.

Some [slaves] require a vigor of discipline to make them do reasonable work.

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

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

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

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.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination over another group of people.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.