“Well, one must be a slave to something in this kind of a world,' he said.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“we are always the slaves to whomever or whatever we look to for peace.” — Andy Wood Copy Share Image
“This confirmed my suspicions that citizens were treated more like slaves than people.” — Rebecca Besser Copy Share Image
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Until we really heal the wounds that we dealt with during slavery, I don't think we'll be a fully realized country. — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good. — Shannon Elizabeth Copy Share Image
Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America.… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
“There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and… — George Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
To be honest, it was slavery. Nobody should have any romantic ideas about working underground. It's very, very dangerous. You always knew… — Dennis Skinner Copy Share Image
With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people? What was… — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Copy Share Image
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not his. He… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“It is passing strange that our philosophers of the Revolutionary period should have formed their conception of a free society by reference… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she’d taken it hard.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
“And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.” — Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Copy Share Image
I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that make many to be a slave, is the fear of death and grave — Olalekan Ayo Omojayogbe Copy Share Image
In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement. — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
