Louis Farrakhan Quotes

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

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

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

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.

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 enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

Call someone your lord and he'll sell you in the slave market.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

They would make fine servants .... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

The masters wanted to keep their slaves, and the slaves, their masters.

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.

Every slave is a stolen man.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.

My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.

We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.

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

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

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

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.

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

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