Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life. — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
'Slavery by Another Name' is an important book that I think all Americans should read, about how, following the end of slavery,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in… — Fannie Barrier Williams Copy Share Image
If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
We forget the conditions - not only in slavery - but after slavery, when there was this purposeful locking out of African… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story… — Afua Cooper Copy Share Image
The first thing Islam does is to destroy the self image of the believers. It convinces them that without Islam they are… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
“Under coverture, a wife was required to live where her husband demanded, her earnings belonged to her husband and her children were… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
“Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if… — Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Copy Share Image
For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Ten years ago, I attended a community meeting for an oil pipeline proposal PE was ramming through the environmental impact process in… — Rachel Grant Copy Share Image
Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade. — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“Unlike a snake or a bear, a dead nigger could not be skinned for profit and was not worth his own dead… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The main challenge Not For Sale is big and it is modern day slavery, which is a $32billion dollar industry second to… — David Batstone Copy Share Image
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
“THE FOUNDATIONAL BELIEF OF THE RULING ELITE IS THAT THEY were born to rule, while the vast majority of the populace is… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image