The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes. — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose. — Lalita Tademy Copy Share Image
A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights. — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. — George Washington Copy Share Image
There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism.… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
“I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But then, if it’s the case that we can care about citizens and the police, shouldn’t the rallying cry just be All… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“When people think of slavery, they think of whips, chains and neurological implants. While these things may be necessary, the real tools… — Kalin Ringkvist Copy Share Image
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The old face, crinkled and dented with canals running every which way, pushed and shoved up against itself for a while, till… — James McBride 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
“Slavery isn’t Black history,” I point out. “It’s everyone’s history.” A” — Jodi Picoult 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 holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
![“My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and 18th century that say [sings], "By and by, by and by, I will lay down, this heavy load." And I mean, so many songs that spoke of hope and understand it better by and by…” quote by Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/887/maya-angelou-104_18th-century_my-people-couldn-t-have-survived-slavery_2520308.jpg)
