“A slave is one who sells his soul to save his life. A master is one who gives his life to save… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“He grew vexed and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery...No, I will not… — Harriet Jacobs Copy Share Image
Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Enslavement can come in many guises and the denial of knowledge is one such tragic example inflicted on humanity.” — Alastair Agutter Copy Share Image
The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
I hope that young people especially will begin to have a better understanding of slavery and its effects, which are still evident… — Emayatzy E. Corinealdi Copy Share Image
“The logic of evangelical Protestants in the 18th century led to an inescapable conclusion: If God was indeed no respecter of persons,… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish.… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Foolish man, what do you bemoan, and what do you fear? Wherever you look there is an end of evils. You see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Up to now, I have never served nor become a messenger for any foreign power or interest. I am an enemy to… — Woldeab Woldemariam Copy Share Image
A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“An unbroken horse erects his mane, paws the ground and starts back impetuously at the sight of the bridle; while one which… — Rousseau Jean-Jacques Copy Share Image
When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness. — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's… — Robert Falls Copy Share Image
“These are the woes of Slaves; They glare from the abyss; They cry, from unknown graves, "We are the Witnesses!” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We must escape this monotony, this slavery of our minds, We have not achieved complete freedom yet. — Kate Miller Copy Share Image
It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is… — Ousmane Sembene Copy Share Image
“If you touch one grain of this accursed tea, you are undone. America is threatened with worse than Egyptian slavery.” — Joseph Cummins Copy Share Image
I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and… — John B. Keane Copy Share Image
I used to think of Hackney in a really good light, now it's too much linked to slavery, too much. And then… — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine. — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Never become a slave to your own thinking and your own self. Understand that you are continuously changing. But, in which way… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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![“In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how to treat their slaves. "Slaves, obey your masters. Masters, be kind to yourslaves." Paul was in favor of a kinder and gentler slavery; it never occurred to him to…” quote by John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/236/john-shelby-spong-1488_addresses_in-supporting-argument-for-segregation-p_1109923.jpg)
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