It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple. — Epictetus 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
“Work and its results always outlived those who labored at it as any Egyptian slave-ghost will tell you.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“In the end, we live to serve the Saviour, who saved us from all slavery in the flesh. And make us awake… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
“You may get me to say the word, but know this, you will never truly own me. That right belongs to my… — Kitty Thomas Copy Share Image
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
“America's 1st Arab spring came in the guise of the Civil War...when our nation couldn't stomach the abomination of slavery anymore. One… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In the era of slavery, you could be a so-called Afro-Cuban one day and a so-called Black American the next day, or… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story… — Afua Cooper Copy Share Image
“Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“Santería was traditionally an unacknowledged and underappreciated aspect of what it meant to be Cuban. Yet the syncretism between the Yoruban religion… — Cristina García Copy Share Image
Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the… — James B. Weaver Copy Share Image
I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful struggle [the Civil War], and to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and… — Vladimir Bartol Copy Share Image