Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed. — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
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 mean, is the guy in the $5,000 necklace going to care about slavery? COME ON! — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom… — Wasif Ali Wasif Copy Share Image
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We need a foreign policy which responds to challenges like forced marriage, and which speaks to the particular needs of women and… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so. — John Norman Copy Share Image
“The ruthless engine of cotton required its fuel of African bodies. Crisscrossing the ocean, ships brought bodies to work the land and… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“See this abdicated beast, once king Of them all, nibble his claws: Not anger enough left—no, nor despair— To break his teeth… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope,… — Joy Degruy Leary Copy Share Image
And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies… — Trent Franks Copy Share Image
“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition… — William Silverman Copy Share Image
Whenever a Republican gets in office, all of a sudden progressives realize that federalism and state's rights aren't necessarily only about defending… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church,… — Bill Ayers 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
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
“Time. So much of our human experience is bound up in time, I muse. It reflects in our everyday colloquialisms, and drives… — John Dolan Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
Enslaved to passing shadows. My dreams fade further away. I Begin to hear the faintest mumbles drone within my ear. These voices… — JMartinez Copy Share Image
... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it.… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
