I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Ali helped raise black people in this country out of mental slavery. The entire experience of being black changed for millions of… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In one sense, no act of reparation will be satisfactory for those whose lives were so under-valued both as human beings held… — Wilton Daniel Gregory Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“An unbroken horse erects his mane, paws the ground and starts back impetuously at the sight of the bridle; while one which… — Rousseau Jean-Jacques Copy Share Image
When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“Any human being should be capable of three things to earn such title: live alone, hunt and drive anything with or without… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“We’re not descendants of slaves. We’re descendants of free people who were enslaved.' Francia Márquez Mina, Afro-Colombian Vice President of Colombia” — Francia Márquez Mina Copy Share Image
“In Rome, too, slaves were the sunshine of every day and the nightmare of every night. Slavery stoked the empire’s life and… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Too much freedom seems to change into nothing but too much slavery, both for private man and city.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Any property taken away from others, whether by stealth, fraud or violence, must be wrong: but to take away men themselves, and… — Ottobah Cugoano known as John Stuart Copy Share Image
Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery. — Henri de Lubac Copy Share Image
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
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