The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“Slaves dream of freedom, commoners dream of becoming kings, what do kings dream of?” — Frederick Pohl Copy Share Image
Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” — International Reading Association Reading Today Online Copy Share Image
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All black art, post-slavery, has always tried to prove in its own way that a black life is the equivalent of anyone… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are. — Gary Haugen Copy Share Image
“Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
“Emma, if I had to march an eternity in slavery it would be worth it knowing that you are safe. They can… — Rebecca Gober Copy Share Image
A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land.… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“When people think of slavery, they think of whips, chains and neurological implants. While these things may be necessary, the real tools… — Kalin Ringkvist Copy Share Image
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“French Enlightenment philosophers liked to use slavery as a symbol of human oppression, and particularly political oppression. “Man is born free but… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“MOST NATIONS HAVE AT ONE TIME OR OTHER BOTH condoned and practiced slavery. Greece and Rome founded their societies on it. India… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom. — Ezola B. Foster Copy Share Image
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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