I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs 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
My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman.… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave… — Robert Purvis Copy Share Image
“Men have enslaved each other since they invented gods to forgive them for doing it.” — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“We’re not descendants of slaves. We’re descendants of free people who were enslaved.' Francia Márquez Mina, Afro-Colombian Vice President of Colombia” — Francia Márquez Mina Copy Share Image
“Even the garden of Eden was just a big fancy cage...You'll be a slave the rest of your life unless you bite… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises:… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in… — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery. — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the… — David W. Blight Copy Share Image
“Jesus treats patriarchy the way he treats much else of the law and custom of his time: ambiguously, suggestively, and sometimes subversively,… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom -… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
