Enslaved Quotes

You've got black guys and white guys and slaves and freed men and an Indian sitting around on the job drinking rum together. It doesn't mean that all day it was peace and love and harmony on the job site, but it's not what we picture when we say people were enslaved to work on University Hall. So there are nuances to this. History is messy. - Robert Emlen

While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool. - Albert Einstein

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. - W. R. Inge

We didn't feel put upon or enslaved. This was just the way it was. - Victor McKusick

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception. - Vernon Howard

We are appalled at the poor taste behind the decision to present this musical at the site where Jews were enslaved and killed. - Abraham Foxman

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman. - Susan B. Anthony

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. - Henry Miller

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved. - Barbara Amiel

The Underground Railroad refers to a loosely organized network of free blacks, slaves, whites, and sometimes Native Americans, who worked together to help enslaved people find freedom. This network was more organized in some places than others. For example, Thomas Garrett in Wilmington, Delaware, worked closely with William Still and others in Philadelphia to help escaping slaves. Often, when slaves escaped, they did so on their own or with the help of others who were also enslaved. - Carol Lloyd