Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“When the mother was delivered into the trader's hands, she said, "You promised to treat me well." To which he replied, "You… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In 1855, a former American slave remarked: "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
“It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We certainly did take the country from the Indians. Right. So, but what's going on here, as I would call it a,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine,… — Mary Griffith Copy Share Image
“Writer Brigid Brophy exposes [their motives] with great precision: "Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are… — Peter cox Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
Enslaved to passing shadows. My dreams fade further away. I Begin to hear the faintest mumbles drone within my ear. These voices… — JMartinez Copy Share Image
... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it.… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom -… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
As a white, female, half-Jewish writer, when I read 'The Underground Railroad,' it reminded me that America isn't just the sort of… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Larsson was an active and lifelong feminist, partly for personal reasons but also because he saw that ending gender slavery was as… — Elizabeth Farrelly Copy Share Image
Our people historically have gone through a lot. That is our story. You can trace it all the way back to slavery.… — Donovan Bailey Copy Share Image
Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
“The best time to do anything, get drunk, surf, run, take a walk, gamble, make love, get high, watch a movie, read… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
“In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in… — Manu Herbstein Copy Share Image
“Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
They're not leading our people toward any kind of independence, but they're using their positions and their education and their talent to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“The light on her face was a lesson, a book that she hoped he would want to read, but he looked away… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
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