“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... . Better to die than to live in slavery. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more… — Bob Edwards Copy Share Image
[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda] — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from… — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not… — Plato Copy Share Image
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“The white author, educated by the black nursemaid who also cured his illnesses and accepted his first searching caresses, was the “racial… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The 1860s ushered in a number of changes that profoundly transformed the nation. While the emancipation of enslaved people and the increased… — Jim Downs Copy Share Image
“It was not that “slave trade profits” flowed through some fiendish channels into the dark satanic mills. But the burgeoning Atlantic trade… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit… — David Rice Copy Share Image
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may*… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“Both animal and human slaves could be controlled best if kept economically and psychically dependent on their owners.” — David Christian Copy Share Image
“Slavery and serfdom, while not unknown in tribal societies, expand enormously under the aegis of states.” — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom… — Wasif Ali Wasif Copy Share Image
If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
We need a foreign policy which responds to challenges like forced marriage, and which speaks to the particular needs of women and… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so. — John Norman Copy Share Image
“The ruthless engine of cotton required its fuel of African bodies. Crisscrossing the ocean, ships brought bodies to work the land and… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Unlike a snake or a bear, a dead nigger could not be skinned for profit and was not worth his own dead… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
“THE FOUNDATIONAL BELIEF OF THE RULING ELITE IS THAT THEY were born to rule, while the vast majority of the populace is… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
The main challenge Not For Sale is big and it is modern day slavery, which is a $32billion dollar industry second to… — David Batstone Copy Share Image