"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."

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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation."

Samuel Hopkins, American Clergyman

Slavery, Word

"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."

Helen Hunt Jackson, American Writer

Slavery, Trees

"The master doesn't need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a pen, but the pressing call of necessity will reestablish it."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Slavery, Needs, Master, Pen

"There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families."

Helen Hunt Jackson, American Writer

Slavery, Blind, Circumstance, Connection, Majority

"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Slavery, Control, Truth, Power, Life

"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

Slavery, Prejudice, Observation, Humanity

"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Slavery, Comfort, Privilege, Ignorance

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"

Bob Marley, Jamaican Musician

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"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."

Helen Hayes, American Actress

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"You must stand for free speech in the streets."

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"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."

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"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."

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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."

"In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation."

"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."

"The master doesn't need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a pen, but the pressing call of necessity will reestablish it."

"There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families."

"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."

"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."

"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"

"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."

Explore more quotes by Mary Harris Jones

"Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation."

"And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone."

"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."

"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword."

"You must stand for free speech in the streets."

"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."

"I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people."

"I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class."

"I abide where there is a fight against wrong."

"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."