I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The United States was founded on the triple sin of slavery, genocide, and land theft. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“LIberty is slavery. Or, well, you already know. P.S. Can you find my logo in the image?” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.” — Julius Ceasar Copy Share Image
Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom! — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“The human race comes from Africa, but inhumanity originated in Europe.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I love my country and what it stands for. Freedom. Law of the jungle. I hate the people who run my country… — Chris Barnhill Copy Share Image
The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I was taught about slavery, but it was the ancient Egyptians. That's the closest I got to African history. — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou's poem 'Still I Rise' encapsulates the spirit of Slavery Remembrance Day, as it commemorates the resilience and strength to overcome… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow… — Patrick Madrid Copy Share Image
There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“When people think of slavery, they think of whips, chains and neurological implants. While these things may be necessary, the real tools… — Kalin Ringkvist Copy Share Image
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama. — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“And yet by nature the servants are born free; for no man is by nature a slave.” — Philo of Alexandria Copy Share Image
You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
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