The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Aristotle argued that slaves have a ‘slavish nature’ whereas free people have a ‘free nature’. Their status in society is merely a… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel. — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.” — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into… — Sunitha Krishnan Copy Share Image
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
“Fire, slavery, cloth, coin, and stone - these are the basis of civilized life. Sometimes it happens that one or another of… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther… — John Milton Copy Share Image
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free. — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
“Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave,” said Vorbis. “So I understand,” said the Tyrant. “I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“slavery was a worldwide institution, entrenched on every inhabited continent, subjugating people of every color, language, and religion,” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The British had this idea they were heroes in the anti-slavery movement but they also were beneficiaries of the slavery trade. It… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that. — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery. — James Forten Copy Share Image
“We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery. — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America. — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image