“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
“Every master loves to fuck a slave. It is a law of nature, or maybe culture.” — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes. — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
“Both animal and human slaves could be controlled best if kept economically and psychically dependent on their owners.” — David Christian Copy Share Image
I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We need a foreign policy which responds to challenges like forced marriage, and which speaks to the particular needs of women and… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
“The ruthless engine of cotton required its fuel of African bodies. Crisscrossing the ocean, ships brought bodies to work the land and… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Slavery and serfdom, while not unknown in tribal societies, expand enormously under the aegis of states.” — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“World War 2 is the ultimate geopolitical smoke screen, fed to the livestock religiously, with Hitler as the moral decoy, so that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A slave's life is mostly composed of patience and study. Yes, study. If not with actual books, then following the example of… — Laura Antoniou Copy Share Image
Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope,… — Joy Degruy Leary Copy Share Image
“We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor.… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Time. So much of our human experience is bound up in time, I muse. It reflects in our everyday colloquialisms, and drives… — John Dolan Copy Share Image
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
