I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
“That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and… — David Bradley Copy Share Image
“She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great grandmother… — Frederick Douglass 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
I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton Copy Share Image
Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may*… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another:… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Thus, if the low grade of intelligence, virtue, and civilization of the African in America, disqualified him for being his own guardian,… — Robert Lewis Dabney Copy Share Image
Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine… — Thomas Roberts Copy Share Image
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
