Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
“the life of a slave must be different from a master but living life its self is the same” — mariam 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
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
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
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
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
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
It is important to honor and remember the millions of individuals who suffered the horrors of slavery. — Al N. Green 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
Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her… — Mary Virginia Terhune Copy Share Image
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something… — Iris Chang 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“Besides the moral courage required to accept commissions in the Fifty-fourth at the time it was organizing, physical courage was also necessary,… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
“The lust for slave profits engulfed even some of the priests, who abandoned their preaching, took black women as concubines, kept slaves… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
