One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end… — Somaly Mam Copy Share Image
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“I considered the northern white stance against slavery. How much of the desire to end the institution was fueled by a need… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The work of redemption was accomplished by Christ in His death on the cross and has in view the payment of the… — John F Walvoord Copy Share Image
“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world. But not… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel. — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves — James Madison Copy Share Image
O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given. He gave us only… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
