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
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release.… — Mary E. DeMuth 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
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
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
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
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
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow… — Patrick Madrid Copy Share Image
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa],… — James Madison Copy Share Image
One of the hugest ways that will make an impact, which is only in its infancy right now, is corporate accountability. Consumers… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not… — Plato Copy Share Image
“slavery was an economic institution of the first importance. It had been the basis of Greek economy and had built up the… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
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