“What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught?… — Courtney M. Privett Copy Share Image
The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum. — George Clymer Copy Share Image
Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
“He had compared the taxation to a form of slavery and had encouraged his fellow Jews to rise up against their oppressors.” — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“At length they gradually deviated into a taste for those luxuries which stimulate to vice; porticos, and baths, and the elegancies of… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin,… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
“the cultures that don't castrate you to make you a slave, they castrate your mind. They make sex so filthy and evil… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Racism in our countries is a fact in that the indian is not allowed to be a politician or aspire to being… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
“Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering… — David Walker Copy Share Image
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we… — Charlamagne Tha God Copy Share Image
“To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel… — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
“There is equality where all are slaves, as well as where all are free. This shows that equality, by itself, is not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Modern day slavery is the great tragedy of our time and the U.S. cannot turn a blind eye to it on our… — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
“switched to slaves. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery. — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation… — William Labov Copy Share Image
“How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not… — Gamaliel Bailey Copy Share Image
Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books,… — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to… — Richard Bach 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
“For most of the history of civilization, the practice of slavery was the rule rather than the exception.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
