You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Some things are not worth dying for, but without them life is not worth living.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery. — Klas Pontus Arnoldson Copy Share Image
“Even a goat got to be a goat." Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.” — Tanja Kobasic Copy Share Image
My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
All socialism involves slavery… That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Jesus treats patriarchy the way he treats much else of the law and custom of his time: ambiguously, suggestively, and sometimes subversively,… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery. — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react. — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
![“My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and 18th century that say [sings], "By and by, by and by, I will lay down, this heavy load." And I mean, so many songs that spoke of hope and understand it better by and by…” quote by Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/887/maya-angelou-104_18th-century_my-people-couldn-t-have-survived-slavery_2520308.png)
