Quotes about Enslavement

‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’

This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Wage of rage of revenge ain't worth it. What's the point of being enslaved by a slave?

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

The institutions of black enslavement and white supremacy did not exist before Democrats in the South created them. The very same institutions then became the mechanisms that Democrats used to build their power, and also to repel and defeat attempts by Republicans to extend rights and opportunities to black Americans.

The greater a man's folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free.

Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life