Slavery Comparison Quotes

I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free laborers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

I protest against the fitness and truth of the usually received definitions and applications of "slave labor" and "free labor"--and, in contradiction thereto, maintain that, in proportion to the respective populations, there are many more slaves in England, and in very much more suffering and painful conditions, than in all the negro slaveholding States of this Confederation.

There are many disgusting elements in Slavery which are not present in Polygamy, while the single disgusting element of Polygamy is more than present in Slavery. By the license of Polygamy, one man may have many wives, all bound to him by the marriage tie, and in other respects protected by law.

Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended too.

There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

We have never heard of slavery in any country, ancient or modern, Pagan, Mohammedan, or Christian, so terrible in its character, as the slavery which exists in these United States

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

At least black people knew when they were slaves; you remain clueless.

There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery

Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

A female slave has (in Christian countries) an admitted right, … to refuse to her master the last familiarity. Not so the wife: however brutal a tyrant she may unfortunately be chained to

Free laborers have not a thousandth part of the rights and liberties of negro slaves. Indeed, they have not a single right or a single liberty, unless it be the right or liberty to die.

The difference between us is, that our slaves are hired for life and well compensated; there is no starvation, no begging, no want of employment among our people, and not too much employment either. Yours are hired by the day, not care for, and scantily compensated, which may be proved in the most painful manner, at any hour in any street of your large towns

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed, clothed, whipped and protected by his master, is happier than the free colored citizen of the North. To that conclusion I have never since arrived.