Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
Life is not given to us that we might live idly without work. No, our life is a struggle and a journey.… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The first time he had taken the massa to one of these "high-falutin' to-dos," as Bell called them, Kunta had been all… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in the USA.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which… — Edith Wharton 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
