I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Government wants to provide the little but the sufficient so that you keep cool and quiet while you are being a slave… — Carlos A Copy Share Image
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We have far more options for black Americans to tell stories outside of slavery, but whenever it comes to slavery, it's an… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
“Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
As an African American woman and the descendant of slaves, I do not condone any form of racism or oppression. I most… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor;… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“An unbroken horse erects his mane, paws the ground and starts back impetuously at the sight of the bridle; while one which… — Rousseau Jean-Jacques Copy Share Image
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was… — Andrew P. Napolitano Copy Share Image
In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
“Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.” — D. Morgenstern Copy Share Image
As far as sex slavery goes, in Canada, if the woman has a Canadian accent, I'm confident that she hasn't been trafficked… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“For example, at the fall of Rome there was very extensive slavery everywhere in Europe; by the time of the “Renaissance” it… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
But the truth is that throughout human history slavery has existed. And America came along as the first country to end it… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery! — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
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