The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no… — Chuck D 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
I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing.… — Dave Zirin Copy Share Image
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and… — Marcus Rediker Copy Share Image
Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Copy Share Image
“An imaginary circle of empathy is drawn by each person. It circumscribes the person at some distance, and corresponds to those things… — Jaron Lanier 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
The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin. — John Fund Copy Share Image
“Emancipation Proclamation, which gave federal legal status to slaves, was in fact an executive order. And,” — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in… — Plato Copy Share Image
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
“It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade. — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye… — James Russell Lowell 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
My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
