Do you realize how many people of this country have been educated, have grown up, who have been taught that, yeah, we're… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God… — James Otis Copy Share Image
“It was like a dream, a beautiful, soothing dream of late autumn: low, gray skies, smell of woodsmoke, fallen leaves crackling beneath… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the… — Julian Beck Copy Share Image
The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost.… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“Animal welfarism is a blatant lie. Anyone who truly cares for the welfare of another, would never dream of exploiting them. For… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery. — Frank Chodorov 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
Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever… — Malik Zulu Shabazz Copy Share Image
Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The anti-slavery party contends that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South… — Laurence M. Keitt Copy Share Image
“Workers who pick the food we eat cannot afford to feed themselves.” — Barry Estabrook Copy Share Image
Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery? — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and… — John B. Keane Copy Share Image