To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. — George Washington Copy Share Image
There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism.… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights. — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from… — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing.… — Dave Zirin Copy Share Image
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and… — Marcus Rediker Copy Share Image
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“In his home, no one around him saw anything wrong with the tyranny. Slavery was as customary as prisons are today. Few… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
“There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,”… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“While slaveowners worked vigorously to allow slaves only so much biblical teaching as to make them good, docile, submissive slaves, even the… — Joel McDurmon Copy Share Image
“A slave was cheaper than a mule. Slavery, despicable topic, rarely appeared in poetry or onstage or in the paintings that decorated… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“By the early eighteenth century, every Virginia county had a militia of landless Whites “ready in case of any sudden eruption of… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes our Boss no right to down their servants,the problem is the servants can't do to fight for themselves.. — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves,… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery. — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“Who but a slave thanks his master for what his master has decided to do without bothering to consult him.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“A slave was supposed to be like the Holy Ghost—don’t see it, don’t hear it, but it’s always hovering round on ready.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
