Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. — John Milton Copy Share Image
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty. — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity... — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Most of the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were purchased, rather than captured, by Europeans.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading,… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
Companies with historical connections to slavery must take ethical responsibility by funding housing programs and grant programs that uplift underserved communities. This… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
“Slavery is at the heart of dysfunctional families. When people serve others because they are forced to do so, freedom to truly… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Slavery! It sounds archaic and perhaps even silly, and this word, too, people dared pronounce only in their hidden thoughts. “Slavery —… — Melānija Vanaga Copy Share Image
I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“by the 1840s the North had built a complex, industrialized economy on the backs of enslaved people and their highly profitable cotton… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“American slavery was specifically racist slavery. It could not exist apart from racism, and could not be separated from it. Slavery was… — Joel McDurmon Copy Share Image