I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If one truly believes in freedom, how can one welcome the notion of slavery from either traditional masters or temperance-wielding masters disguised… — Joshua Emmet Copy Share Image
The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery. — Dan Geer Copy Share Image
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. — David Wilmot Copy Share Image
And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will… — James Allen Copy Share Image
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am secretly afraid of animals… I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“JONES WATCHED THE HOUSE being built, the Negro slaves’ wiry bodies slick with sweat as they toiled in the intense summer heat.… — Michael Bray Copy Share Image
May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice… — Jose Maria Morelos Y PavónJose Maria Morelos Y Pavón 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
The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The influences and associations that had always surrounded him, blinded him to the inherent wrong at the bottom of the system of… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! -… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“What could be better for slave owners than slaves who think they’re free? This is the greatest trick ever pulled: a nation… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
I'm not a person that really deal in color. I recognize the inequities that certain cultures have to go through. I understand… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“Those who see poverty looking for human slaves to capture, will tell you they saw him holding the handcuffs of laziness.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“We’re not descendants of slaves. We’re descendants of free people who were enslaved.' Francia Márquez Mina, Afro-Colombian Vice President of Colombia” — Francia Márquez Mina Copy Share Image
“In Rome, too, slaves were the sunshine of every day and the nightmare of every night. Slavery stoked the empire’s life and… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Too much freedom seems to change into nothing but too much slavery, both for private man and city.” — Plato Copy Share Image
When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“Any property taken away from others, whether by stealth, fraud or violence, must be wrong: but to take away men themselves, and… — Ottobah Cugoano known as John Stuart Copy Share Image
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