Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“Most of the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were purchased, rather than captured, by Europeans.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading,… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
“We preach FREEDOM, not silenced slavery. Stop being a hypocritical element. Do to others what you can accept yourself.” — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
“Mauritania officially abolished slavery in 1980, though its own government admitted that the practice continued nevertheless.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral &… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
When you think of 244 years of slavery and 81 years of that finally you are going to be allowed to be… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union.… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“Negro slavery, thus, had nothing to do with climate. Its origin can be expressed in three words: in the Caribbean, Sugar; on… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
“Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
“There are no gods, paladin. There is no afterlife, no eternal reward. You, in fact, are a slave to a creature you… — Alec Hutson Copy Share Image
It's a shameful piece of history and I think - I don't mean to be political or sobering or anything - but… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
“In his home, no one around him saw anything wrong with the tyranny. Slavery was as customary as prisons are today. Few… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“To do the work of others is slavery. To do the work of God is true liberation.” — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Perhaps slavery is harder for a person who has known freedom. Perhaps it does not matter. The” — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
