No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I mean, is the guy in the $5,000 necklace going to care about slavery? COME ON! — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion. — Butterfly McQueen Copy Share Image
He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A slave is one who sells his soul to save his life. A master is one who gives his life to save… — Matshona Dhliwayo 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
Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
“The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Under slavery, families were ripped apart, and it was a desire of black men and black women to be together with their… — Derrick Grayson Copy Share Image
As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I think all Americans need to recognize that, as tragic and horrible as slavery was, as big an economic shadow as it… — Lonnie Bunch Copy Share Image
“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I don't want to give too much lugubrious thought to the gravitas of a coherent album. I don't want to develop a… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God, let him go to the Bible...I said that slavery was… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly… — Susan B. Anthony 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
Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“We in this room have no private properties. Perhaps one or two of us may own the homes we live in, or… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“I thought about how Juneteenth is a holiday that inspires so much celebration, born from circumstances imbued with so much tragedy. Enslavers… — Clint Smith 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
“I wrote 300 books to escape the system, to buy my freedom, to escape slavery. Whoever thinks they need a job, is… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
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