“Fortunate, most fortunate occurrence!—fortunate for the millions of his manacled brethren, yet panting for deliverance from their awful thraldom!—fortunate for the cause… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
What if history was changed? slavery reversed Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse? — Fredro Starr Copy Share Image
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of… — John Brown Copy Share Image
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Miranda was shocked to hear Nicholas speak of slavery in glowing terms, as an efficient agricultural system. This wasn't the South! Yet… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
“They put me and more 300 companions of misfortune and captivity in the strait and infected basement of a ship. Thirty days… — Maria Firmina dos Reis Copy Share Image
I don't find the idea of sewing degrading. A thing is degrading when you are forced to do it, through economic reasons… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Meditation on the holy Scriptures , free us from mental slavery.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The history of slavery and the complication of slavery is that it is an international concept. It is something that affected people… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“That’s got to stop,” says I. “The idea of any blood-thirsty pirate (Mexican President Diaz) sitting on a throne and reaching across… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in… — James McBride Copy Share Image
No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I am a democrat [proponent of democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life. — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“Well," said St. Clare, "suppose that something shoul bring down the price of cotton once and forever, and make the whole slave… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“A job is a contract whereby you sell out a bit of your life daily” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
