Abraham Lincoln truly inspired me. It wasn't just the freeing of the slaves, he kept the Union together. Some people even forget… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
"Animal" is my favorite song because it's a reminder for me every night when I step on to stage that I am… — Andrew Ripp Copy Share Image
I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin. The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip. What… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
“Oh! How heavily the weight of slavery pressed upon me then. I must toil day after day, endure abuse and taunts and… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I have a perhaps naive point of view informed by my own kind of snowflake-in-the-unique-sense rather than the political sense, personal story.… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These… — Russell Cornell Leffingwell Copy Share Image
A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our past as well as our future. It could have been completely destroyed when we were brought to the New World as… — Randy Weston Copy Share Image
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . .… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“...because slave life had "busted her legs, back, head, eyes, hands, kidneys, womb and tongue," she had nothing left to make a… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Among the short-lived races, pleasure slaves became emotionally unstable after a few years. It took decades among the long-lived races, but eventually… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
“{ Colonel Carr's testimony of Colonel Robert Ingersoll at his funeral } He was the boldest, most aggressive, courageous, virile, and the… — Eugene Asa Carr Copy Share Image
It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It seems strange that the Mother of the race should be made the Slave of the Fruits of her Womb. It appears… — Hilton Hotema Copy Share Image
“As he plods behind Cameron and Summer, he can’t help but stare at Summer’s exposed, glistening skin. His thoughts aren’t depraved or… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Where did the idea come from that we should take life so seriously, anyway? Why should a man be such a slave… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“It is a mistaken opinion that prevails in some quarters that the slave does not understand the term - does not comprehend… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Jimmy Carter, of course, was beloved. Peanut farmer. Came out of nowhere, governor of Georgia. Normally Democrats hate Southern accents, 'cause Southern… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
