The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes. — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn't a big enough role model for me. I couldn't… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is troubling that modern slavery is a crime that can be hidden in the supply chains of the goods and services… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being… — Nathan Huggins Copy Share Image
“I remained abroad ten months, which was much longer than I had anticipated. During all that time, I never saw the slightest… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“We had a little slave boy whom we had hired from some one, there in Hannibal. He was from the Eastern Shore… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“It was no longer a question of the Union as it was , that was to be reestablished; it was the Union… — Régis de Trobriand Copy Share Image
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Every master loves to fuck a slave. It is a law of nature, or maybe culture.” — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
