As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery;… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery? — Tatyana Ali Copy Share Image
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin. — John Fund Copy Share Image
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd. — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that… — Henry George Copy Share Image
My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country… — Idi Amin Copy Share Image
And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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