Barbara Amiel Quotes

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

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

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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!

The very idea that human beings are held in bondage is sickening.

There is no freedom in peaceful slavery.

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

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

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

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

Every slave is a stolen man.

Liberty is the greatest blessing that men enjoy, and slavery is the heaviest curse that human nature is capable of …. those who are governed at the will of another, and whose property may be taken from them...without their consent...are in the miserable condition of slaves.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

No country can be called free where there is one slave.

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.

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.