Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would… — Lysander Spooner 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
From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
“Don't look like you're going to cry all the time." She scowled. "Tears are one of their favourite drinks around here.” — L.C. Perry Copy Share Image
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words… — M. K. Asante Copy Share Image
May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice… — Jose Maria Morelos Y Pavón Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
“This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw.” “No it isn’t,” I said. “That book wasn’t even written until… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I suspect, too, that the modern debates represent the effort of candidates with widely-varying constituencies and special interests to please to tip… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?" — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery,… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, I can tell you it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and… — Isham G. Harris Copy Share Image
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Lincoln, Douglas and their contemporaries struggled to decide what the words “all men are created equal” really meant. Stephen A. Douglas and… — Georgiann Baldino Copy Share Image
