We, the Black people of America, were chosen by Allah: Not to be "special" in the sense that we are better than… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. — George Washington Copy Share Image
We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
“A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority… — Glen Chambers Copy Share Image
Freedom is not simply the circumstances that allow you to do whatever you want. Freedom is not only the opportunity to choose.… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I wanted to touch on how we look on each other. Good hair, light skin, you must be smart; if you're black,… — Rapsody Copy Share Image
“There always are and always will be some strange personalities in our country, whatever the conditions, who though peaceful and not at… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Women and LBGT people have the advantage that they are everybody's son, daughter, cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle. They are in a position… — Linda Hirshman Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange… — Abel Meeropol Copy Share Image
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I think we live in slavery to fear. Most people don't have an answer to the death question and really don't even… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the… — William Loughton Smith Copy Share Image
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