Sunday, March 10, 2024

Topics - 11 Quotes Against Oppression: Perspectives on Freedom and Slavery

Topics - 11 Quotes Against Oppression: Perspectives on Freedom and Slavery


Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,

I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

- Abraham Lincoln -


This time, the topics addressed themes of freedom and slavery, power and oppression, and knowledge and ignorance. These quotes underscore societal awareness and ideologies surrounding freedom, slavery, human rights, power, knowledge, ignorance, and oppression, presenting various perspectives through historical figures.


1. A few quotes express strong criticism of slavery and a desire for freedom. There is harsh condemnation for those who advocate slavery and those who deny freedom.

2. Some quotes emphasize the importance of knowledge and education, while criticizing the negative impact of ignorance and oppression. The path to freedom, especially from slavery, is depicted as being achieved through knowledge and education.

3. Other quotes explore contrasting ideas of freedom and oppression, power and powerlessness. They highlight the theme of individuals seeking freedom from oppression, resisting power, and attaining freedom through knowledge.


  • Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. - Abraham Lincoln -

  • Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it. - Abraham Lincoln -

  • As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. - Abraham Lincoln -

  • Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. - Frederick Douglass -

  • Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. - Henry David Thoreau -

  • None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe -

  • Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar. - Friedrich Nietzsche -

  • Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron) -

  • Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path. - Carl Sagan -

  • Those who have knowledge of money make money their slave; but those who do not have knowledge of money becomes slave to it. - prince el fati -

  • Nevermore shall men make slaves of others! Not in Asgard--not on Earth--not any place where the hammer of Thor can be swung--or where men of good faith hold freedom dear! - Stan Lee -



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