“Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You worry you never gonna… — Nancy Rawles Copy Share Image
“Why Banning Miller, what a vision you are in your fine dress. Must've taken a dozen slaves a dozen days to get… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine… — Thomas Roberts Copy Share Image
If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All that a man has in this world is his own will, the freedom to do what he desires. Taking away that… — Alec Hutson Copy Share Image
“What made Bacon’s Rebellion especially fearsome for the rulers of Virginia was that black slaves and white servants joined forces. The final… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I suspect, too, that the modern debates represent the effort of candidates with widely-varying constituencies and special interests to please to tip… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves.… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life,… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
After the end of slavery, African-American men were arrested in mass, and they were arrested for extremely minor crimes like loitering, standing… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently,… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
“They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held'… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution… — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
What I hope is that this wider pattern of films about slavery that's emerging isn't just a fad but evidence that we've… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
“To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This war must go on till the last of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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