Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery. — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“But who would build the roads if there were no government? You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed. — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of… — Amy Watkins Copy Share Image
God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
Hope of consciousness is strength Hope of feelings is slavery Hope of body is disease. — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
“Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection. It means a state of society in which some men are forced… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
A mutual friend, Benjamin Rush, brought [Tomas Jefferson and John Adams] together in 1812, and they went on to exchange letters for… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our… — John Locke Copy Share Image
There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image