“You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“No one can escape slavery; we are all slaves in some regards. We are slaves to our parent's expectations. We are slaves… — Mahima Martel Copy Share Image
“That we were slaves I had known all my life--and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold--but… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“There are more slaves in the world today (best estimate—27 million) than were extracted from Africa during 400 years of the transatlantic… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose… — Virginia Williams Copy Share Image
What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
“When we were lying helpless on the floor, he saw us. When we were crying from breathing the toxic air of this… — Gerrit Dawson Copy Share Image
“There may be humane masters, as there certainly are inhuman ones—there may be slaves well-clothed, well-fed, and happy, as there surely are… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“Anger rose among Irish working-class men, in particular, who couldn’t afford to buy their way out of a war they felt they… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Lewis B. Norwood, a wealthy North Carolina planter, was killed by two of his slaves. A husband and wife, they held him… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
“The fact remains that women and children were left vulnerable to sickness and disease, manipulative slaveholders, and even apathetic Union officers during… — Jim Downs Copy Share Image
Every human on the planet is descended from both slaves and slave owners. What makes Britain unusual is not that we engaged… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Why didn't Lina know their names? Why hadn't she studied their histories? Where was the monument? Where was the museum? What had… — Tara Conklin Copy Share Image
Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift… — Meat Loaf Copy Share Image
Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish.… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
“Hal: "...Then we'll leave in a huff, taking you with us." "I've always wanted to travel in a huff," Ingvar mused. "It… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“JONES WATCHED THE HOUSE being built, the Negro slaves’ wiry bodies slick with sweat as they toiled in the intense summer heat.… — Michael Bray Copy Share Image
If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“Maria thought for a moment. “Are they slaves?” He shook his head but did not answer immediately. “They’re robots.” “Are they? I… — N.M. Sotzek Copy Share Image
“Slaves are not allowed to say no. Laborers may be hesitant to say no. But professionals are expected to say no. Indeed,… — Robert C. Martin Copy Share Image
“Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing… — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life,… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings.… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
“Almost two hundred years ago, Harriet Tubman led slaves to freedom. And when they told her they didn’t think they could, when… — Anna Carey Copy Share Image
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“Ever since I was a child I used to hear my father say: ‘If the price we pay for freedom is high,… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo… — George Grey Copy Share Image
“That name was a sadistic play on the Underground Railroad that smuggled American slaves north. The old Nazis set up their own… — John Pearce Copy Share Image
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“had missions she was charged to perform—but she had taken them on as personal challenges, not out of some loyalty to a… — John Jackson Miller Copy Share Image
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