When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of thepeople who compose the nation; and that can be done only by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Doesn't their superiority consist in there being fewer traces of the slaveowner in them than in us?' Nikolai” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Well," said Miss Ophelia, "do you think slavery right or wrong?" "I'm not going to have any of your horrid New England… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men,… — Zeno of Citium Copy Share Image
We must work together, across nations and sectors. Only then will we consign the hideous crime of slavery to the history books. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture; the reduction… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Bear in mind, now, that most of this work was done by men who had no intention whatever, when they enlisted, of… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper,… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in the USA.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“May we all stand tall together in the face of those forces, here and elsewhere, that seek to enslave us.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
I'm so sick and tired of hearing about slavery. You think slavery didn't exist in Africa? Even Indian tribes. — David Duke Copy Share Image
“[T]he slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. —W.E.B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
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