“You ever think about the noose?' 'I been thinking about the noose since I was born.” — Stacey Lee Copy Share Image
“The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free. — Henry George Copy Share Image
One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
“Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame. — John Denham Copy Share Image
“Being a slave is to have nothing but still having something left to lose.” — Lalita Tedemy Copy Share Image
Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our… — Megan Smolenyak Copy Share Image
“Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Some few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
“Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened… — David Swanson 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
Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“French Enlightenment philosophers liked to use slavery as a symbol of human oppression, and particularly political oppression. “Man is born free but… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“MOST NATIONS HAVE AT ONE TIME OR OTHER BOTH condoned and practiced slavery. Greece and Rome founded their societies on it. India… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Our biggest oppressor is our mind. There results of it are seen on black on black hate . Look how black people… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A job is a contract whereby you sell out a bit of your life daily” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion. — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
