My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed, The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.” — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of… — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image
Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved.… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises:… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Slavery was a web of relationships, and if people knew how thick the whole business was, they would not make fun of… — James McBride Copy Share Image
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party… — Ed Rollins Copy Share Image
The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
A mutual friend, Benjamin Rush, brought [Tomas Jefferson and John Adams] together in 1812, and they went on to exchange letters for… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor;… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
“Thus, when the slave asks for virtuous freedom, the cunning slaveholder, knowing his ignorance, cheats him with a dose of vicious dissipation,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I always compare young missioners to the kids who naively signed up to go to Iraq to fight terrorism. They are just… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
“Well, I think that what used to be called, centuries ago, "wage slavery" is intolerable. And I don't think people ought to… — Noam Chomsky 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
“Slavery was as customary as prisons are today. Few could imagine an ordered world without them.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Ni dieu ni maître! (Neither God nor master) [Feminist and labour slogan translated to 'No gods, no masters']” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“Slavery and the Bible? First Corinthians 7:21 told slaves to take the opportunity to be free. Let me put forth that God… — Gina Turner Copy Share Image
No, Islam did not free African-Americans from slavery, not in Africa and not in Europe or America. Evangelical Christianity did that. — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. But there are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“His captors asked why he, a nonslaveholder, was fighting to uphold slavery. He replied: “I’m fighting because you’re down here.”7” — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
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