Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
“In the 1800s, the United States was divided over the issue of slavery. The North wanted the country to end all slavery.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The history of slavery and the complication of slavery is that it is an international concept. It is something that affected people… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Slavery happened. That flag stands for segregation. We have monuments to Civil War generals and slave owners, as well as preserved plantations.… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“words ‘ebed and doulos has been undertaken with particular attention to their meaning in each specific context. Thus in Old Testament times,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for… — Horace Porter Copy Share Image
Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Paul D did not answer because she didn't expect or want him to, but he did know what she meant. Listening to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Even today, most US history textbooks tell the story of the Louisiana Purchase without admitting that slave revolution in Saint-Domingue made it… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by… — Leonard Bacon Copy Share Image
Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange -… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“Forced partings were common in the antebellum South. A slave in some parts of the region stood a 30 percent chance of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“The price of freedom is high — far higher than that of slavery. And it is not paid in gold, nor in… — Curzio Malaparte Copy Share Image
For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being… — Nathan Huggins Copy Share Image
![“It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.” quote by William Lloyd Garrison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c37/william-lloyd-garrison-11679_absolutes_it-slavery-has-exercised-absolute-master_2971302.jpg)
![“Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have fun and enjoy what is on the screen, and we have moments where we're actually happy.” quote by Aldis Hodge](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/545/aldis-hodge-8186_bigs_even-though-the-topic-of-slavery-itself_2695429.jpg)
