“Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Hope of consciousness is strength Hope of feelings is slavery Hope of body is disease. — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The United States was founded on the triple sin of slavery, genocide, and land theft. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“LIberty is slavery. Or, well, you already know. P.S. Can you find my logo in the image?” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The human race comes from Africa, but inhumanity originated in Europe.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
“The world dominance of Great Britain enabled it to impose its anti-slavery edicts on many other sovereign nations.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting--of… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
“If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Dead white guys built this country. Show some gratitude and show some reverence. But as far as slavery, yeah. It's part of… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman.… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
“to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew… — Kevin Carson Copy Share Image
“In our humble12 opinion, the South in general’s attitude regarding the war and everything that came after needs a major paradigm shift.… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
“Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Do you realize how many people of this country have been educated, have grown up, who have been taught that, yeah, we're… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Henry,” Robbins said, looking not at him but out to the other side ofthe road, “the law will protect you as a… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
“He told his story through autobiographies that garnered him wide acclaim (and a warrant for his life—as we know, he fled to… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“Thus it is doubly difficult to write of this period calmly, so intense was the feeling, so mighty the human passions that… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama. — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.” — Julius Ceasar Copy Share Image
Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom! — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“And yet by nature the servants are born free; for no man is by nature a slave.” — Philo of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“There’s no difference between slavery and poverty in this world.” — Kayla Cunningham Copy Share Image
