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
In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Turning back to the crowd I say, “I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“I considered the northern white stance against slavery. How much of the desire to end the institution was fueled by a need… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation… — Amelia Bloomer Copy Share Image
The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What Abraham Lincoln had to face was a culturally and politically cohesive bloc of states comprising half the country, refusing to discuss… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“As the international economist Ronald Findlay argues, “slavery was an integral part of a complex intercontinental system of trade in goods and… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave… — Robert Purvis Copy Share Image
I wanted to touch on how we look on each other. Good hair, light skin, you must be smart; if you're black,… — Rapsody Copy Share Image
In the 1850s, as the numbers of Americans who were not invested in the slave system grew, the South's leaders felt they… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“I felt entangled now: this March, this South, this war, history. History could not possibly let the South get away with slavery;… — Cynthia Bass Copy Share Image
“The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
“the American physician Samuel Cartwright identifying in 1851 a mental disorder, drapetomania, evident only in slaves. The sole symptom was “the desire… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
My family is from Jamaica, it's why I don't do 'Who Do You Think You Are' because within two or three generations… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever… — Malik Zulu Shabazz Copy Share Image
For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
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