We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often,… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per cent of them… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
“Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“JONES WATCHED THE HOUSE being built, the Negro slaves’ wiry bodies slick with sweat as they toiled in the intense summer heat.… — Michael Bray Copy Share Image
In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery;… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Man is less interested in marriage, very much less interested. In fact not interested at all. If he agrees, he agrees only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The institution of slavery was, for a quarter millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Look, without our stories, without the true nature and reality of who we are as People of Color, nothing about fanboy or… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.'… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Government wants to provide the little but the sufficient so that you keep cool and quiet while you are being a slave… — Carlos A Copy Share Image
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
As far as sex slavery goes, in Canada, if the woman has a Canadian accent, I'm confident that she hasn't been trafficked… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
“She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.” — D. Morgenstern Copy Share Image
But the truth is that throughout human history slavery has existed. And America came along as the first country to end it… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“For example, at the fall of Rome there was very extensive slavery everywhere in Europe; by the time of the “Renaissance” it… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery! — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
