“Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught?… — Courtney M. Privett Copy Share Image
Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for… — Horace Porter Copy Share Image
We have different levels of slavery. We've got educational slavery. All the major religions of the world, even Christianity and Islam, are… — John Henrik Clarke 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
If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong. — Howell Cobb Copy Share Image
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hope that young people especially will begin to have a better understanding of slavery and its effects, which are still evident… — Emayatzy E. Corinealdi Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Why did God set it up like this?” Rachel asked. “With them as masters and us as slaves?” “There is no God,… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“For most of human history people owned other people. Then, only a hundred and fifty years ago, our ancestors figured out that… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery,… — John Oliver Killens Copy Share Image
One thing which Stephen A. Douglas was temperamentally incapable of doing was admitting he was wrong. He always believed that 'popular sovereignty'… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Submitting self to God is the only real freedom-because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
“The tyger's tail thumped behind her. 'This stunted little world breaks my heart,' she said. 'So much here has stagnated and died.… — S.F. Said Copy Share Image
