“The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.” — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Even the garden of Eden was just a big fancy cage...You'll be a slave the rest of your life unless you bite… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the term 'free will' is one of the most manipulated and exploited terms. The real explanation of… — Torkom Saraydarian Copy Share Image
“Perhaps an even more remarkable contribution of Britain to the growth of freedom in the world was its leading role in the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
“We all know the indignities to which enslaved humans will submit themselves in order to satisfy their addictions, whether for narcotics, alcohol,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“ Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Well," said St. Clare, "suppose that something shoul bring down the price of cotton once and forever, and make the whole slave… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“Slave ships landed more than 1.5 million African captives on British Caribbean islands (primarily Jamaica and Barbados) by the late 1700s and… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
“The fact remains that women and children were left vulnerable to sickness and disease, manipulative slaveholders, and even apathetic Union officers during… — Jim Downs Copy Share Image
It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice… — Kenneth Cloke Copy Share Image
“That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and… — Vladimir Bartol Copy Share Image
Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
“It is easier for people to accept slavery if they realize that they actually have paid for it. - On Slavery.” — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
We need a Slavery Remembrance Day... we also need to accord dignity and respect to the enslaved people... with a Congressional gold… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery. — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods — Kevin Bales 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
We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern… — David Batstone Copy Share Image
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
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