Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery… — Howard Dean 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
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
“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
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
Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
As an African American woman and the descendant of slaves, I do not condone any form of racism or oppression. I most… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We have far more options for black Americans to tell stories outside of slavery, but whenever it comes to slavery, it's an… — Aldis Hodge 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
“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
“In a democratic society, a wrongful practice persists only when most people don’t perceive it to be unjust. At first, only a… — Peter Thiel 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 parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
I'm not a person that really deal in color. I recognize the inequities that certain cultures have to go through. I understand… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
“What could be better for slave owners than slaves who think they’re free? This is the greatest trick ever pulled: a nation… — Robert Peate 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
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
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
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
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
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison 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
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
The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
