So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual? — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to. — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the… — George Takei Copy Share Image
“How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
“Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the… — Charles Chaplin Copy Share Image
“In the end, we live to serve the Saviour, who saved us from all slavery in the flesh. And make us awake… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the… — Eugene Genovese Copy Share Image
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing.… — Dave Zirin Copy Share Image
“To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image