“To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“While I was fighting, I heard other people speaking in the name of freedom, and the more they defended this unique right,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Every mystic had always longed for slaves, to protect him from the material reality he dreaded. But you, you grotesque little atavists,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are… — George Washington Copy Share Image
To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
“To make slaves more amenable to control, they were often separated at birth from their families. And, like domesticated animals, many were… — David A. Nibert Copy Share Image
“To discourage slaves from meeting or escaping, slave owners told tales of gruesome research done on black bodies, then covered themselves in… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“Where there are so many negroes upon places as upon ours," wrote an Alabama woman to the governor, "it is quite necessary… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“The dire poverty of the early nineteenth century Irish may be indicated by their average life expectancy of 19 years-compared to 36… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Every adult parent, however lowly or powerless, had at least some one that he could command, threaten, and punish. No man was… — John Holt Copy Share Image
All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from… — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“When I think of antiquity, the detail that frightens me is that those hundreds of millions of slaves on whose backs civilization… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
“Ah, my dear friend, cheer up... After all, we have peace! And because there is peace, the occupiers can't behave so abominably… — Andrzej Szczypiorski Copy Share Image
“We are to free the slaves because we were once slaves. Sabbath is a remembrance of the stale bondage of Egypt and… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
Studies of the people named and described in earliest Christian texts show that, right from the earliest years, they included craftsmen, merchants,… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
“January 25, 1785, nineteen people gathered at the home of innkeeper John Simmons to form a society that would safeguard blacks who… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Talk about keeping slaves, as if we did it for our convenience," said Marie. "I'm sure, if we consulted that, we might… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The Cantii, like most of the tribes of Prydain, had always kept slaves. We bought and sold them the same way as… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
“Mungu hutumia watu 'wajinga' na 'wapumbavu' kufanya mambo makubwa katika maisha yao na ya watu wengine. Katika Biblia, Musa aliitwa mjinga alipokiuka… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“Every corner of the island was ransacked; every human being that could be found, was slain or carried into captivity. Nothing was… — William Deans Copy Share Image
“We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery;… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The more I study the works of men in their institutions, the more clearly I see that, in their efforts after independence,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“When she emerged a while later, as fresh as she could get using only the washbasin and her hands, she understood one… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Rolfe’s eyes narrowed to slits. “Why?” “You’ll have to clarify that.” He took a breath. “Why go to so much trouble for… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
![“To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.’ This is why the slaveholders must control what slaves hear and see and think…” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9e0/carl-sagan-160_critical-thinking_to-make-a-contented-slave-frederick-bail_1690816.jpg)
![“My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and 18th century that say [sings], "By and by, by and by, I will lay down, this heavy load." And I mean, so many songs that spoke of hope and understand it better by and by…” quote by Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/887/maya-angelou-104_18th-century_my-people-couldn-t-have-survived-slavery_2520308.png)
