The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes. — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.” — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern… — David Batstone Copy Share Image
Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither… — Jeanne Phillips Copy Share Image
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“By the time of the Revolution there was in each colony an accumulated body of slave law that did not so much… — Don E. Fehrenbacher Copy Share Image
“Untouchability shuts all doors of opportunities for betterment in life for Untouchables. It does not offer an Untouchable any opportunity to move… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Slavery is the nagging, unrelenting shame of America that continues to deny the true promise of the country to too many its… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave,… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
I remember when I wrote a piece, "Blood on the Fields," it was a while ago, it was about slavery and about… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society… — Fred Moten and Stefano Harney Copy Share Image
“An imaginary circle of empathy is drawn by each person. It circumscribes the person at some distance, and corresponds to those things… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind, now, that most of this work was done by men who had no intention whatever, when they enlisted, of… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may*… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
