“It is easier for people to accept slavery if they realize that they actually have paid for it. - On Slavery.” — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
“Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The present struggle between the South and North is, therefore, nothing but a struggle between two social systems, the system of slavery… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
How many people worldwide are victims of this type of slavery, in which the person is at the service of his or… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
The work of redemption was accomplished by Christ in His death on the cross and has in view the payment of the… — John F Walvoord Copy Share Image
“Enslavement was not merely the antiseptic borrowing of labor -- it is not so easy to get a human being to commit… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The lust for slave profits engulfed even some of the priests, who abandoned their preaching, took black women as concubines, kept slaves… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Rigorously investigated and fearlessly reported, A Crime So Monstrous is a passionate and thorough examination of the appalling reality of human bondage… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
“We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism,… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in… — James McBride Copy Share Image
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
It is important to honor and remember the millions of individuals who suffered the horrors of slavery. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze… — Dudley Randall Copy Share Image
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed. — James Oglethorpe Copy Share Image
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“So, your friends call you Bastian. Your enemies call you asshole. What do lovers call you?” “Why do you want to know?”… — Rachel Grant Copy Share Image
Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
So many white people don't want to talk about race; it's uncomfortable. Many reason that slavery happened more than a century ago,… — Beth Macy Copy Share Image
“Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting… — Susie Larson Copy Share Image
There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
