Quotes about Slavery

Go down, Moses,Way down in Egypt land,Tell old Pharaoh,Let my people go.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

To live the life of Christ means to him to be delivered from the life of self; the will of Christ is to him the only path of liberty from the slavery of his own evil self-will.

Adam did not take away the will, but made it a slave where it was free. It is not only prone to sin, but is made subject to sin.

That the covetous wants that which he has, as   well as that which he has not; because he is master of nothing, and is   the slave of his own wealth.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Even Martin Luther's needed "justification by faith" sent us on a five-hundred-year battle for the private soul of the individual.* Thus leaving us with almost no care for the earth, society, the outsider, or the full Body of Christ. This is surely one reason why Christianity found itself incapable of critiquing social calamities like Nazism, slavery, and Western consumerism.

How can you measure the value of the good news of Christ? It is spoken of in the Bible as light in the darkness, freedom from slavery and life from death. Look at how much the Early Church valued the message. They received it with great joy and overflowing gratitude.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?