So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and… — John B. Keane Copy Share Image
I used to think of Hackney in a really good light, now it's too much linked to slavery, too much. And then… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine. — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Never become a slave to your own thinking and your own self. Understand that you are continuously changing. But, in which way… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“Animal welfarism is a blatant lie. Anyone who truly cares for the welfare of another, would never dream of exploiting them. For… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“You must abolish your slavery yourselves. Do not depend for its abolition upon god or a superman. Remember that it is not… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
“It is to point out that at this late hour, the totems of the empire of slavery—chief among them, its flag—still enjoy… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you!… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
“So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor.… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
