Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,on the contrary, renders… — David Hume Copy Share Image
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth.… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
This country was formed for the white not for the black man. And looking upon African slavery from the same stand-point, as… — John Wilkes Copy Share Image
“In 1821, the United States government sent Dr. Eli Ayres to West Africa to buy, on what was known as the “Pepper… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of… — Erik Dammann Copy Share Image
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
“When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Some people cling to the belief that the Civil War was fought over states' rights. But history is not on their side.… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
“The returns from cotton monopoly powered the modernization of the rest of the American economy, and by the time of the Civil… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Housing in New York City has become too expensive for many average wage earners, let alone people with marginal incomes, who find… — Solly Granatstein Copy Share Image
If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their… — Josephine Bakhita Copy Share Image
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious,… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against… — Laurence M. Keitt Copy Share Image
The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
![“[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.” quote by G. Edward Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7f2/g-edward-griffin-9084_accepted_it-is-generally-accepted-that-the-civil_1542726.jpg)
![“It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.” quote by Nate Parker](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f68/nate-parker-10210_america_it-s-therapy-people-say-true-healing-req_2292739.png)
![“Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an…” quote by H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a51/h-l-mencken-245_all-time_since-the-early-days-the-church-has-thro_2325142.png)
