“His captors asked why he, a nonslaveholder, was fighting to uphold slavery. He replied: “I’m fighting because you’re down here.”7” — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. But there are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
No, Islam did not free African-Americans from slavery, not in Africa and not in Europe or America. Evangelical Christianity did that. — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
“Slavery and the Bible? First Corinthians 7:21 told slaves to take the opportunity to be free. Let me put forth that God… — Gina Turner Copy Share Image
We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all… — David Platt Copy Share Image
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“We know many among ourselves who have given themselves up to bonds, in order that they might ransom others. Many, too, have… — Clement of Rome Copy Share Image
In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.” “What are we… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther… — John Milton Copy Share Image
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Fire, slavery, cloth, coin, and stone - these are the basis of civilized life. Sometimes it happens that one or another of… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland.… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Ni dieu ni maître! (Neither God nor master) [Feminist and labour slogan translated to 'No gods, no masters']” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some… — John Brown Copy Share Image
One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“I think incompatibility of temper began when it was made plain to us that we get all the opprobrium of slavery while… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Slavery was one of the worst crimes against humanity and endured by those who built our great nation. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
“Achi used to say that, for a woman, sex was her greatest strength. Morality was nothing but a chain invented by man… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end… — Somaly Mam Copy Share Image
“How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
![“In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how to treat their slaves. "Slaves, obey your masters. Masters, be kind to yourslaves." Paul was in favor of a kinder and gentler slavery; it never occurred to him to…” quote by John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/236/john-shelby-spong-1488_addresses_in-supporting-argument-for-segregation-p_1109923.jpg)
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