'In the Pines' is a very old song dating back to slavery. Lead Belly made it popular. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth century industrial society had created a new class of slaves,” — F. H. Buckley Copy Share Image
I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire. — William Styron Copy Share Image
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave! — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it’s purpose in your life.” — Chinonye J. Chidolue Copy Share Image
“Possibly the greatest good requires the existence of a slave class.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations. — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke. — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
“Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction” — Simón Bolívar Copy Share Image
“O, you happy free women, contrast your New Year's day with that of the poor bond-woman! With you it is a pleasant… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange -… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“Forced partings were common in the antebellum South. A slave in some parts of the region stood a 30 percent chance of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of course, the political history of the United States is exactly the reverse. It is in large measure the history of a… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great grandmother… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“It may sound exaggerated to say that the clash of civilizations and cultures as what we're witnessing in Europe between muslims and… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Submitting self to God is the only real freedom-because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“I once two beautiful children playing together. One was a fair white child; the other was her slave, and also her sister.… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves — James Madison Copy Share Image
Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
