I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery,… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
“Slaves in the Caribbean had their breastfeeding time limited so that they could breed more slaves for their owners.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Illegal immigrants are sold into slavery. It's a massive issue with Hispanic women and children - and even men. — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended… — Benjamin Zephaniah Copy Share Image
I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“We know many among ourselves who have given themselves up to bonds, in order that they might ransom others. Many, too, have… — Clement of Rome Copy Share Image
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Abolish all white teachers from schools and universities across the world, and replace them with noncaucasians, and the human race will be… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I have myself known two southern wives who exhorted their husbands to free those slaves towards whom they stood in a "parental… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was… — Andrew P. Napolitano Copy Share Image
The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the… — Eugene Genovese Copy Share Image
“For Marius to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. Hard years, and difficult ones; those to get through, these to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“I never will, I never can, worship a God who upholds the institution of slavery. Such a God I hate and defy.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A binding treaty and mandatory human rights due diligence would clean up slavery in global supply chains. Workers demand it, and consumers… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
I dont think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some… — John Brown Copy Share Image
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
![“In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how to treat their slaves. "Slaves, obey your masters. Masters, be kind to yourslaves." Paul was in favor of a kinder and gentler slavery; it never occurred to him to…” quote by John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/236/john-shelby-spong-1488_addresses_in-supporting-argument-for-segregation-p_1109923.jpg)
