Harriet Tubman Quotes

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

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.

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.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The idea of slavery is such a base impulse. It's like, "I'm going to kidnap you and then you're going to do everything I want." Like, what? And then there's the historical aspect. It had a huge effect on human history.

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

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

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

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

Slavery can never be abolished.

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.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric.

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

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

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.