“If one truly believes in freedom, how can one welcome the notion of slavery from either traditional masters or temperance-wielding masters disguised… — Joshua Emmet Copy Share Image
The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery. — Dan Geer Copy Share Image
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority… — Glen Chambers Copy Share Image
“Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection. It means a state of society in which some men are forced… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Free yourself from mental slavery. Break those invisible chains your masters put on your spiritual neck to control you” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It's just like a liberal, they import slaves, they hold slaves, they fight for slavery, they go to war in a civil… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The South is about the abundance, beauty, and richness of Southern culture, but also its dark underside. The history of Southern food… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
“Even after the war, Eugenia, do you still put people into categories the way you were taught to do—rich and poor, socially… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
“Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.” “What are we… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
North Korea's sin is that it refuses to surrender, to fall on its knees, to sacrifice its people. It refuses to become… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“The struggle against slavery went on forever, the struggle for women's rights has been going on for centuries, the effort to overcome"wage… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Dear Sirs," Flick began before loudly inhaling, "On account of there being no heat down here in account of the being nö… — Rivers Solomon Copy Share Image
Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice… — Jose Maria Morelos Y PavónJose Maria Morelos Y Pavón Copy Share Image
“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians.… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“Up to now, I have never served nor become a messenger for any foreign power or interest. I am an enemy to… — Woldeab Woldemariam Copy Share Image
For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. — David Wilmot Copy Share Image
It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something. — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth,… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian… — H. Wayne House Copy Share Image
Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain. — David Batstone Copy Share Image
There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual? — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a… — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn't a big enough role model for me. I couldn't… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image