Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“12. “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” Abraham Lincoln” — Rriiver Nyile Copy Share Image
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
“Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery. — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only… — Maria Weston Chapman Copy Share Image
The great evil of American slavery was involuntary servitude or forced labor. I really believe that the true evil of American slavery… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group… — Michele Montas Copy Share Image
Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“The bonds of dependence, far from loosening, have tightened again. But alongside force there is no longer authority, alongside obedience, no longer… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom… — Siddharth Kara 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
“By 1860, two of every three of the relatively few Americans whose wealth surpassed $100,000 lived below the Mason-Dixon Line. New York… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
“No,” he answered. If Stanton figured he was teaching the slave a lesson, Venture knew that by staying locked up he was… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years… — Dinesh D'Souza 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
“You are not property. If you choose to leave, no one will stop you.” — Elizabeth Vaughan Copy Share Image
Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery. — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
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