Bravery without sword is like slavery without lord.

“God probably wanted us to discover him. We started following him.”

— Deepak Kripal

I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't…

— Lauryn Hill

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and states, and…

— Edward Snowden

“We were made to dominate our environment. It was not intended that we should be buffeted about by accident or chance. Our greatest enemies…

— Orison Swett Marden

The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive…

— Will Durant

“Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“In American, the history of racism is taught like this: 'There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin…

— Trevor Noah

“Rule 3: Just because someone is offended, doesn’t mean they’re right Ending Slavery: More important than the feelings of people who like slavery”

— Oliver Emberton

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

— Catherine Wilson

The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries... [in…

— John Bright

I could never see myself doing the 9-to-5 thing; it just seemed like slavery to me.

— John Part

“If you’ve ever suffered the accusations of people who objectified you as an emblem of darkness, it wasn’t your fault. If you’ve ever been…

— Kamil Alvi

“Real Power: Imagination combined with intellect.”

— Kamil Alvi

“I wonder what brought us here? The analogy of our situation or the void we want to fill? Perhaps, our previous journey was a…

— Kamil Alvi