To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my… — Anaximenes Copy Share Image
When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“The gravel road widened into a large turnaround where three similar looking and designed brothels sat waiting for customers. They were called… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“It's painful fighting for freedom. Freedom has demands. To begin, we must admit we're slaves.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more… — CrimethInc Copy Share Image
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Inequality and poverty, unhealth and no wealth are hand in hand. And if we are all born equal that should be true… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Slavery as an institution that degraded man to a thing has never died out. In some periods of history it has flourished:… — Milton Meltzer Copy Share Image
Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough),… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... . Better to die than to live in slavery. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
