“You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“It is easier for people to accept slavery if they realize that they actually have paid for it. - On Slavery.” — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Even the garden of Eden was just a big fancy cage...You'll be a slave the rest of your life unless you bite… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think all Americans need to recognize that, as tragic and horrible as slavery was, as big an economic shadow as it… — Lonnie Bunch Copy Share Image
I don't want to give too much lugubrious thought to the gravitas of a coherent album. I don't want to develop a… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God, let him go to the Bible...I said that slavery was… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
“A slave lacks incentives; for him it is better to work slowly and badly, since his effort benefits only the master, but… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To have a museum chronicling the great crime that was African slavery in the United States of America would be to acknowledge… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper,… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Copy Share Image
