It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity. — Granville Sharp Copy Share Image
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our… — Rza Copy Share Image
“Vampire Willow Rosenberg: "In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.” — Buffy the Vampire Slayer writers Copy Share Image
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
“O, you happy free women, contrast your New Year's day with that of the poor bond-woman! With you it is a pleasant… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway?… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I've never taught one, because if I taught one, I'd have to teach others... I would give myself over to a slavery,… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange -… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“Forced partings were common in the antebellum South. A slave in some parts of the region stood a 30 percent chance of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“There are no gods, paladin. There is no afterlife, no eternal reward. You, in fact, are a slave to a creature you… — Alec Hutson Copy Share Image
It's a shameful piece of history and I think - I don't mean to be political or sobering or anything - but… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“Thus it is doubly difficult to write of this period calmly, so intense was the feeling, so mighty the human passions that… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“He told his story through autobiographies that garnered him wide acclaim (and a warrant for his life—as we know, he fled to… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not his. He… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Do you realize how many people of this country have been educated, have grown up, who have been taught that, yeah, we're… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
“«Since when you have taken people for slaves and they were born free»” — Umar ibn Al-Khattab Copy Share Image
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
You think than you are free to do whatever, but in fact you are a slave of doing whatever. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves. — James Madison Copy Share Image
