The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion. — Butterfly McQueen Copy Share Image
The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined,… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“From their arrival around 1619, African people had illegally resisted legal slavery. They had thus been stamped from the beginning as criminals. In” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And verily for everything a slave loses there is a substitue,but the one who loses Allah wil never find anything to replace… — Islam Copy Share Image
“Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
There has never been a prosecuted case of slavery. There's no criminality to it. So, it was just like, 'It's over,' and… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous… — William Tecumseh Vernon Copy Share Image
No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
“A man is always a little shamefaced on his wedding day, like a fox caught in a baited trap, ensnared because his… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“The first time he had taken the massa to one of these "high-falutin' to-dos," as Bell called them, Kunta had been all… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
The story of slavery is everybody's story. It is the story about how we're all shaped by, regardless of race, regardless of… — Lonnie Bunch Copy Share Image
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