Free yourself from the slavery of tea and coffee and other slop kettles! — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
“Modern Slavery is the lack of emancipation from Mental Slavery.” — Dr Ikoghene S Aashikpelokhai Copy Share Image
“It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“Modern society did not abolish slavery, but only regulated it.” — Dario de Judicibus Copy Share Image
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life. — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
“Emancipation Proclamation, which gave federal legal status to slaves, was in fact an executive order. And,” — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“Rendering moral judgements in retrospect can be hazardous. It is unfair to judge the past by the standards of the present. Yet… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery.… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“And, since I had learned that whites were once enslaved as generally as any other race, how did it come about that… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
“It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
Half the country seceded from the other half when Abraham Lincoln was elected because half the country couldn't abide his position on… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of… — Annette Gordon-Reed Copy Share Image
It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The act of choosing what to place in your piece when you're a historian or a non-fiction writer already renders it into… — James McBride Copy Share Image
