Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
LibertySlaveryExtremesConsequence Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
RacismDiscriminationSlaveryHuman Rights Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
SlaveryEvilInjustice 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.
ConflictFreedomSlaveryMoralityChoice Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once-happy plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?
SecretsVulnerabilityLoss of ControlSlavery He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
HatredFondnessSlaveryPolicyPeace The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
TechnologyPowerBeautySlaveryHate Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
HatredAffectionSlaveryDutyNational Interest The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Founding FathersConstitutional ConventionSlavery You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.