As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion. — Butterfly McQueen Copy Share Image
“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“Quite so," answered the young lord. "It is the problem of slavery, and we try to solve it by amusing the slaves.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil... — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine… — Thomas Roberts Copy Share Image
To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
“The benevolent gentleman is sorry; but, then, the thing happens every day! One sees girls and mothers crying at these sales, always!… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture; the reduction… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The old face, crinkled and dented with canals running every which way, pushed and shoved up against itself for a while, till… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the other person all attributes of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Henry,” Robbins said, looking not at him but out to the other side ofthe road, “the law will protect you as a… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose. — Lalita Tademy Copy Share Image
“Slavery isn’t Black history,” I point out. “It’s everyone’s history.” A” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery. — David Swanson Copy Share Image
“the life of a slave must be different from a master but living life its self is the same” — mariam Copy Share Image
