Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
“You are not property. If you choose to leave, no one will stop you.” — Elizabeth Vaughan Copy Share Image
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
“Unlike a snake or a bear, a dead nigger could not be skinned for profit and was not worth his own dead… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law.… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more… — CrimethInc Copy Share Image
I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho[ugh] popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do… — Richard Rumbold Copy Share Image
It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never… — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“It's owed to us through immunities of our individualities but we're deceived and become surety. Sure to be if we grow in… — Jose R. Coronado Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The mind has its needs, just as the body does. The latter are the foundations of society; from the former emerge the… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Off course, life has no point. If it had, man would not be free. He'd become a slave to that point and… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
![“I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham] Lincoln was killed, Reconstruction came along, and all of that inequity was frozen in place and carried forward rather smugly. So I think the burden is now upon us…” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/607/george-saunders-317_abraham_i-ve-been-reading-about-and-writing-abou_3049163.jpg)
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