Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed. — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
“To live [in the church] at the beck and call of marketing logic is to live in slavery.” — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain. — David Batstone Copy Share Image
The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian… — H. Wayne House Copy Share Image
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth,… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something. — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a… — Hilary Beckles 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
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“The price of freedom is high — far higher than that of slavery. And it is not paid in gold, nor in… — Curzio Malaparte Copy Share Image
For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
“the elite of our people” had, in his quiet way, escaped slavery. In 1841 Joseph Willson, dentist, of Philadelphia, published Sketches of… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
“the American physician Samuel Cartwright identifying in 1851 a mental disorder, drapetomania, evident only in slaves. The sole symptom was “the desire… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
“Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“Lee had a low opinion of black abilities, and thought that Virginia would be better off it its freed black population now… — Charles Bracelen Flood Copy Share Image
“We see now a complex web of historical threads to ensnare blacks for slavery in America: the desperation of starving settlers, the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness… — Albert Meltzer Copy Share Image
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own. — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.” — André Gide Copy Share Image