Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
“the life of a slave must be different from a master but living life its self is the same” — mariam Copy Share Image
This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose. — Lalita Tademy Copy Share Image
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in… — Moby Copy Share Image
“Two-sentence horror story: I woke up in a country founded on the genocide of native peoples and the enslavement of imported ones.… — Miles Garrett Copy Share Image
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“few years after Ball was herded south, a slave trader marched a coffle past the US Capitol just as a gaggle of… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ...… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
“We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and… — Mel White Copy Share Image
The population of African people in the United States is far in excess of six small European nations. Where we are going?… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I watched these young people read to the audience parts of history that placed our country in context. I felt, in that… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“I still worry about Africa, we are slaves to western and Eastern Brands and we do not cherish and love our own.… — Tare Munzara Copy Share Image
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery. — David Swanson Copy Share Image
It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Slavery isn’t Black history,” I point out. “It’s everyone’s history.” A” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image