I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose. — Lalita Tademy Copy Share Image
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze… — Dudley Randall Copy Share Image
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed. — James Oglethorpe Copy Share Image
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North,… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished:… — Milton Meltzer Copy Share Image
Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina… — Saidiya Hartman Copy Share Image
Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
“We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism,… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in… — James McBride Copy Share Image
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“Even when the 13th Amendment was passed to abolish slavery with an exception of servitude as a penalty for criminal conviction, the… — Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele Copy Share Image
From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
