Ed Davey Quotes

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

Every slave is a stolen man.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

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

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

This is about slavery.

[Describing slavery:] ... a cruel war against human nature itself.

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

I am a firm believer in slavery.

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

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

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

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

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

To think that man, thou just and loving God! Should stand before thee with a tyrant's rod, O'er creatures like himself, with souls from Thee, Yet dare to boast of perfect liberty! Away! away! I'd rather hold my neck By doubtful tenure from a Sultan's beck, In climes where liberty has scarce been nam'd, Nor any right but that of ruling claim'd, Than thus to live where boasted Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves!

Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

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

In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man. Brethren, your oppressors aim to do this. They endeavor to make you as much like brutes as possible. When they have blinded the eyes of your mind-when they have embittered the sweet waters of the light which shines from the word of God-then, and not till then has American slavery done its perfect work.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

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