Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery. — David Swanson Copy Share Image
“Slavery isn’t Black history,” I point out. “It’s everyone’s history.” A” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“So, your friends call you Bastian. Your enemies call you asshole. What do lovers call you?” “Why do you want to know?”… — Rachel Grant Copy Share Image
Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is important to honor and remember the millions of individuals who suffered the horrors of slavery. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Freedom's never been free, there's always been a price to be paid, but people have forgotten; they're handing their freedom, their lives,… — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit… — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom… The subjection of individuals… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now,… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities,… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
“The white man's cruelest trick was not to conquer or even enslave, but simply to soften, weaken and corrupt every culture or… — Tom Cain Copy Share Image
Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
In the beginning this was just an idea. Then it was a short story. Then it was a script. Each step was… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Let's say Twitter existed during the Civil War. We would have a better understanding of people in the Confederacy who were against… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
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