I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master… — Boris Kodjoe Copy Share Image
“I have myself known two southern wives who exhorted their husbands to free those slaves towards whom they stood in a "parental… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896,… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved… — Terence McKenna 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
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
“An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify animal use, however “humane” it… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither… — Jeanne Phillips Copy Share Image
Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology,… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her… — Mary Virginia Terhune Copy Share Image
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful struggle [the Civil War], and to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism,… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
