“A slave will amuse himself in his dungeon; a free man must file through his chains and dig through his prison-walls before… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. — George Mason Copy Share Image
When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in… — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Even a slave may rise from the dust, and whet his gaze into a knife, and tell his master, "You will never… — Greg Keyes Copy Share Image
“I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or… — William Pitt the Younger Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the term 'free will' is one of the most manipulated and exploited terms. The real explanation of… — Torkom Saraydarian Copy Share Image
The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
'Slavery by Another Name' is an important book that I think all Americans should read, about how, following the end of slavery,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How does a weaker minority dominate a physically superior majority? In my research I learned that this is accomplished by destroying the… — Kyle Baker Copy Share Image
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“African slavery lacked two elements that made American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we… — Charlamagne Tha God Copy Share Image
“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world. But not… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“When someone does wrong, whether it is you or me, whether it is mother or father, whether it is the Gold Coast… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“Whitewashed World (The Sonnet) I once sent my sonnets for an official recognition, They rejected me saying, I lack skill and significance.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Freedom is not simply the circumstances that allow you to do whatever you want. Freedom is not only the opportunity to choose.… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland.… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well. — Marisol Nichols Copy Share Image
Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong. — Euripides Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing.… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“Don't look like you're going to cry all the time." She scowled. "Tears are one of their favourite drinks around here.” — L.C. Perry Copy Share Image
“Slavery was abolished in 1355 because of church teachings stating that all men are equal in the eyes of God.§” — Christina Johansson Robinowitz Copy Share Image
The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’ — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery— boredom.” — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already… — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
