“the elite of our people” had, in his quiet way, escaped slavery. In 1841 Joseph Willson, dentist, of Philadelphia, published Sketches of… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Our touchstones of slavery are 'Song of the South,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'The Birth of a Nation.' It's hard to… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted… — Sheikh Abdullah Copy Share Image
I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; they knew that labor as… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“In the 1860s the leaders of the cotton belt made one of the most prodigious miscalculations in recorded history. On the eve… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“This book was written so that we may take heed and remold our story. I am certain that when enough of us… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
“He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery.… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Thus, if the low grade of intelligence, virtue, and civilization of the African in America, disqualified him for being his own guardian,… — Robert Lewis Dabney Copy Share Image
“The lives of the older Da Silvas were empty and sad. They mourned the Slave Trade as a lost Golden Age when… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
“A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar,—and to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in… — Thomas Clarkson Copy Share Image
“So that originally, and Naturally, there is no such thing as Slavery. Joseph was rightfully no more a Slave to his brethren,… — Samuel Sewall Copy Share Image
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
“Surely slavery was not tolerated in Kentucky, surely not in Lexington, which the captain so often called the Beautiful City. Everything would… — David Dick Copy Share Image
He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“For most of human history people owned other people. Then, only a hundred and fifty years ago, our ancestors figured out that… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
![“So that originally, and Naturally, there is no such thing as Slavery. Joseph was rightfully no more a Slave to his brethren, then they were to him: and they no more Authority to Sell him, than they had to Slay him. [Genesis 37].” quote by Samuel Sewall](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/613/samuel-sewall-95664_bible-interpretation_so-that-originally-and-naturally-there-i_2619011.jpg)
