I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart. — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
“Losing your job releases you from the contract of giving a piece of your life daily” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
All black art, post-slavery, has always tried to prove in its own way that a black life is the equivalent of anyone… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are. — Gary Haugen Copy Share Image
Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No!… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Emma, if I had to march an eternity in slavery it would be worth it knowing that you are safe. They can… — Rebecca Gober Copy Share Image
A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land.… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“No,” he answered. If Stanton figured he was teaching the slave a lesson, Venture knew that by staying locked up he was… — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
“By 1860, two of every three of the relatively few Americans whose wealth surpassed $100,000 lived below the Mason-Dixon Line. New York… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
How many demons and people are enslaved here? (Jericho) Define slavery. (Asmodeus) Kept against their will. (Jericho) Good definition. Counting me? (Asmodeus)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Miranda was shocked to hear Nicholas speak of slavery in glowing terms, as an efficient agricultural system. This wasn't the South! Yet… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words… — M. K. Asante Copy Share Image
“There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
We're all slaves to death is our biological curse and thus a form of slavery. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“hierarchy-making was wielded in the service of a political project: enslavement.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Western technology made slavery unnecessary; Western ideas made it intolerable.” — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“As a rule, I believe people shouldn't follow rules; rules should follow people.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image