“No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“The slave is held most securely when he is held by the chains of his own will and of his own fears,… — Michael Bunker Copy Share Image
The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that… — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“We know many among ourselves who have given themselves up to bonds, in order that they might ransom others. Many, too, have… — Clement of Rome Copy Share Image
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
The South is about the abundance, beauty, and richness of Southern culture, but also its dark underside. The history of Southern food… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
It's just like a liberal, they import slaves, they hold slaves, they fight for slavery, they go to war in a civil… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“I have myself known two southern wives who exhorted their husbands to free those slaves towards whom they stood in a "parental… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Abolish all white teachers from schools and universities across the world, and replace them with noncaucasians, and the human race will be… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Any human being should be capable of three things to earn such title: live alone, hunt and drive anything with or without… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was… — Andrew P. Napolitano Copy Share Image
“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. — Democritus Copy Share Image
Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Colonialism of one kind or another, imperialism of one kind or another, and slavery, and on and on and on. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of… — Lucy N. Colman Copy Share Image
When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.” — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all… — Albert G. Brown Copy Share Image
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
