They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the cultures that don't castrate you to make you a slave, they castrate your mind. They make sex so filthy and evil… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin,… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“If the Baron meets with a parcel of negro ships carrying whites into slavery to work upon their plantations in a cold… — Rudolph Erich Raspe Copy Share Image
There are places and spaces for black writers to write about race as a central thing. It's important. We're still dealing with… — Kwame Alexander Copy Share Image
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her;… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
“Slavery was a bad thing, and freedom, of the kind we got, with nothing to live on, was bad. Two snakes full… — Patsy Mitchner Copy Share Image
“Donna and Grace and so many people—specifically white people—often have understood slavery, and those held in its grip, only in abstract terms.… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“I’d like to run away, to flee from what I know, from what is mine, from what I love. I want to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“At length they gradually deviated into a taste for those luxuries which stimulate to vice; porticos, and baths, and the elegancies of… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“Look at me I am the life in a wasteland Look at me I am the slavery through the ages Look at… — Rixa White Copy Share Image
This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
As we all know, the evil of slavery and the sting of the whip have given us many things including the voice… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that our children know different kinds of people, eat different kinds of food, and learn our true… — Christian Picciolini Copy Share Image
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Old Testament, is really one of the most wickedest books you'll ever come across. God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Drugs is a government game, Bilal. A way to rob us of our best black men, our army. Everyone who plays the… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated… — Thomas Clarkson Copy Share Image
Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in… — Gilbert Simondon Copy Share Image
“That’s got to stop,” says I. “The idea of any blood-thirsty pirate (Mexican President Diaz) sitting on a throne and reaching across… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
“To say to the slave who has not been emancipated 'Do not behave as a slave' is to mock his enslavement. But… — John Murray Copy Share Image
The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
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