Edmund Burke Quotes

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

Where there is a vast multitude of slaves as in Virginia, those who are free, are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom

The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.

Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

We will make slavery history very soon. We will make child labor history very soon.

Democratic liberty exists solely because we have slaves ... freedom is not possible without slavery

in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free, are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

The evil of slavery and colonialism was that these oppressions kept their victims out of history, disconnected them from the evolutionary struggle.

America was founded on the backs of slaves.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

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?

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.