“Inequality and poverty, unhealth and no wealth are hand in hand. And if we are all born equal that should be true… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost.… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people? What was… — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Copy Share Image
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I believe that modern slavery is the most outrageous assault on the rights of an individual. It is something that touches me… — Wagner Moura Copy Share Image
I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis of the wages system even the unpaid… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
"First female president." That's it, and that's nowhere near, by the way, as powerful or penetrating as the first African-American president. I… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Can you get it? (Jaden) If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron) I’d rather trade places with Prometheus… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman.… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
“to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew… — Kevin Carson Copy Share Image
Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America.… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
“There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and… — George Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
To be honest, it was slavery. Nobody should have any romantic ideas about working underground. It's very, very dangerous. You always knew… — Dennis Skinner Copy Share Image
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral &… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
When you think of 244 years of slavery and 81 years of that finally you are going to be allowed to be… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union.… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Dead white guys built this country. Show some gratitude and show some reverence. But as far as slavery, yeah. It's part of… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
Black people are not a monolith. Black people have different thoughts. And sometimes people just need to hear the harsh truth -… — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything?… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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